James Mark Baldwin Quotes
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Nothing else matters except that I have fun, and I'm still having fun.
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When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.
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Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.
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What kind of business world are we living in?
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When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.
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I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.
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I love black lingerie and white shoes, and I love knives.
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
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All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.
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Sports is my passion.
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There are kids going into chemistry and biology because of 'CSI.'
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My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.
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I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.
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I do like to play the darker characters; I don't really know why.
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Michelangelo worked from within. He described not the excitements of touching or seeing a man but the excitement of being Man.
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I saw some amazing, beautiful, invigorating parts of America, but I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America, a side of America that rarely sees the light of day. I refer, of course, to the anus and testicles of my co-star, Ken Davitian.
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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
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To hate excellence is to hate the gods.
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I kind of feel like I didn't have much choice. The songs... the playing... those were the only things that ever really kept my attention.
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It offended him and mocked his wounded soul: the fact that the world didn't die when his heart did.
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One can't help but be a bit melancholy when you see how the world has changed, and I don't mean that nostalgically.
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Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
