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 Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.
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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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Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and have repeatedly led to disaster. Most of these ideas are not new. They are just being recycled with re-treaded rhetoric.
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What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting ... I wanted to be part of it.
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I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics.
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In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.
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Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery.
