David Baker Quotes
When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.
Quotes to Explore
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.
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Apollo 11 was the movie premiere of moon landings, with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Neil was a bit of a mystic, but also a taciturn guy from what I can tell. He really saw the moon as looking like the American high desert. He wasn't someone who dealt in metaphors.
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Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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First we pre-visualized it [the flying fish scene in 'Life of Pi'] so the actors could act. It took a long time to get that to come to life and to design those coming out of the screen. We had great fun with that. It takes a long time, a year maybe.
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When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.
