George Pierce Baker Quotes
We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.George Pierce Baker
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
Ted Hughes -
When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
Carlo Ratti -
I'm not a sun person.
Laura Prepon -
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
Federico Fellini -
I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
Beck -
The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
Barton Gellman
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
Ian Gomez -
I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.
Kate Bush -
It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
Rachel Stevens -
Canada definitely has a strong program in women's boxing, and we're showing that women are capable, not just men.
Mandy Bujold -
The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
Jack Kerouac
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I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown.
Ted Cruz -
I don't have goals in life.
Olivier Martinez -
I love myself and I am a good person.
Adam Lambert -
I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition.
Carly Schroeder -
Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.
V. E. Schwab -
We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
Rafael Correa
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'Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it was lowly Birmingham University. But even when I came out with my degree, my mother promptly insisted I go straight to secretarial college to have something to fall back on, just in case – which didn’t exactly fill me with confidence.'
Tamsin Greig -
I had a degree in economics but also thought of myself as a musician.
Jon Feltheimer -
The cost of money rises dramatically if you can't afford to keep it in a bank.
Dan Schulman -
We all have things in life we'd do over again.
Evan Bayh -
We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.
George Pierce Baker