Russell Baker Quotes
It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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One should know their body types well to experiment with trends.
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I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.
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Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
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I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.
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My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression.
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It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.
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You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
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I try not to eat anything which is too fat, and I can't eat anything which is too sweet.
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I've always just wanted people to look at me.
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Speaking as a writer, it would be difficult to find an event in American history more dramatic and riveting than the Civil War.
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Happiness isn't for dabblers.
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I've got two young sons who, when I ask them and their friends how they feel about gay marriage, kinda give me one of those looks like, 'Gosh, Mom, why are you even asking that question?'
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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
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I never run away from the responsibility. I'm used to it.
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People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
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I'm just a character actor.
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The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
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Increased sympathy for an Islamist cause, lack of integration, and the absence of acceptance of Muslims into British society makes it harder for Muslims to challenge Islamism and tough for non-Muslims to understand it.
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But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.
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It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.
