George Pierce Baker Quotes
In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
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As a business person, I want the world to share the prosperity together.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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Advertising should always be in good taste without a question.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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The only difference between the failure of a great idea and the success of a medocre idea was the way in which the idea was communicated.
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I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. Although my mind was heaven-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.
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In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.
