Russell Baker Quotes
Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
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It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
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My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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If you keep on buying things made by child slaves in such conditions, you are equally responsible for the perpetration of slavery.
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I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything.
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I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.
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If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!
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The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.
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What really motivates you to try to work things out as an actor is in large part fear, because you want to get into that narrative and bring the audience along.
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I've always been afraid to do a solo show. When I go to see the great solo shows of Liz Callaway or Christine Ebersole, they have so many incredible stories to talk about, and their material and lives are so rich. I've always worried that my life was not rich enough.
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I esteem it the crowning mercy of my life that not only the chief ends I contemplated on becoming a missionary are attained, but I am allowed to see competent, faithful, and affectionate successors actively engaged in the work.
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I just think that it's such a good show and timeless and still very funny, and that just makes me happy to have that whole first season in one concentrated space for people to enjoy so that it's not hit and miss trying to find it in syndication always.
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Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
