David Baker Quotes
When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.
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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 never got on the course with my dad, but to be playing golf with my kids - that's a dream.
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I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something.
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Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and little boy about him, but at the same time the way he goes about everything is so awkward and obnoxious. He can never say the right thing, you know? And I think if he just didn't try so hard and calmed down, people might actually like him a bit more!
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After winning the Oscar, I was committed to do 'Fried Green Tomatoes,' but I didn't know what the next thing would be after that. It was a scary time. But the advantage of TV is the regular work. All you need is a hit series, I guess.
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Partly, I like a bad reputation. But I also want a reputation of being a good person.
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When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.
