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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I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.
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Even with good maps, there's no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local governments will take action to discourage or prevent building in dangerous areas.
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Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.
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What musicals need is a new me.
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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.
