Billy Baldwin Quotes
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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Growing up I played in garage bands and cover bands with my older brother, and he got us a gig opening up for some hippie jam band. I was 15. I felt like such an adult!
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The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.
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Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.
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Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.
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Rich Palm Beach clients all wanted the same kind of different thing.
