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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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
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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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When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.
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What the UN inspectors can do is demonstrate to the world, help the Iraqi government demonstrate to the world that the Iraqis are cooperatively disarming if that is in fact what the Iraqi government decides to do.
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While I'd like to believe that I'm not a bad or evil person, regardless, it's clear that some of my past actions have hurt or offended several women. And I probably deserve to be called a creep.
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I've learned that there's a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, our fans get impatient, or they just don't understand, or they miss the point. And I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing; it's just something we have to contend with.
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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.