Doug Baldwin Quotes
As a human, I feel extremely compelled to use my platform and my influence in whatever way for the benefit and not just for my sole benefit.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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I used to get 2000 as pocket money, and I was being offered a car and an opportunity to make lakhs, so I said a yes. I was a kid and got homesick over my 40-day schedule in Bangalore and decided that I would only do films in the South if they were 10-day roles.
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The automatic bread maker is not as good as breads made by hand, but waking up to the smell of fresh bread is worth the price of admission. We use it for fresh cinnamon raisin toast - mmmmmmm!
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Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.
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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
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No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.
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They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
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One does not care for the cage when the bird has flown away from it. and when the bird of life flies away, no one cares for the body left behind.
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Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.
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The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.
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How completely, how thoroughly he has stolen my child. I have never even tried to forgive him.
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the old place of the Quoyles, half ruined, isolated, the walls and doors of it pumiced by stony lives of dead generations. The aunt felt a hot pang. Nothing would drive them out a second time.
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As long as offices are open to all men and no constitutional rank is established, it is pure republicanism.
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I have always admired Meghna Gulzar's work, and getting to work with her and the Dharma Productions is like a dream come true.
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I wasn't trained to write non-fiction.
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I've become a little disillusioned with what's happening in the theatre just in the material that's been offered to me. I wish there was material that I responded to more. I can't make a living doing theatre. But I can't wait to come back. I'm doing a lot of film auditioning. I'm trying to make a transition into film. I'd like to see if I could have a little success in front of the camera.
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Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.
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As a human, I feel extremely compelled to use my platform and my influence in whatever way for the benefit and not just for my sole benefit.
