Kathy Baker Quotes
The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods.
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I am so appreciative of all the attention I've gotten, especially since I don't ever consider myself anything more than a fan.
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It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.
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The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
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To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.
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Sound loves to revel in a summer night.
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People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
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He tries by a peculiar speech to speak The peculiar potency of the general
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A thing final in itself and, therefore, good: One of the vast repetitions final in Themselves and, therefore, good, the going round And round and round, the merely going round, Until merely going round is a final good, The way wine comes at a table in a wood.
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The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowersStream from the hawthorn on the wind away,The doors clap to, the pane is blind with showers.Pass me the can, lad; there’s an end of May.
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'What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually- our sense of personality is a sense of outrage and we'll never get outside of it.'But the hold of the country was that, she considered, it could be thought of in terms of oneself, so interpreted.
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And I'm very proud of the 50,000 poll workers and election officials who delivered a free and fair election.
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Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.
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If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.
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I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the props.
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Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man...free to travel... free to stop...free to work...free to choose my own teachers...free to follow the religion of my Fathers...free to think and talk and act for myself.
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
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The city, Hollywood and the entertainment industry, it was sort of dehumanizing.
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The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away one's worldly goods.
