Russell Baker Quotes
Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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There's going to be a picture of 'Mama' on my obit.
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In zombie horror, the juxtaposition of the calm world of the living and the menace of the undead inspires terror. In zombie comedy, like 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' it is played for laughs.
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I love a man who can wear my underwear.
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Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.
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You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.
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I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.
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When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like 'Madea', and 'Night, Mother', and 'Sam Shepard', and all that kind of stuff. That's what I really wanted to do.
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Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?'
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So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will most certainly be wrung and possibly broken ... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
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It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.
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Every day and in every way, baseball gets fancier. A few more years and they'll be playing on oriental rugs.
