Russell Baker Quotes
Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don't think I've worked as hard as many other people.
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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.
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Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.
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It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
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The world throws you out of your body, especially the cyberworld.
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I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.
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I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble.
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I know that I will go to my grave as Professor Sprout, whatever else I’ve done.
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I really pulled back on my career when the kids were young and my husband and I made a pact never to work while the other one was.
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If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace.
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Even in my childhood my sympathy for the heroes in the fairy tales was always keenest at the moment when they waved their hands in farewell and turned their faces at last towards the magical adventures that stalked about impatiently awaiting their advent in the strange countries where their havens lay.
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Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.
