Russell Baker Quotes
I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another.
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Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Yoga is a life-saver.
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My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
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I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
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When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
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I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.
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Evil report carries further than any applause.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
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I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up.
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If I could go the ballpark and play the game for three hours and then go home? It would be awesome. But that's not the case.
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One's ignorance is one's chief asset.
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With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.
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I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.
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There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.
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We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can be famous on the Internet if their world looks good on Tumblr. And so everyone at high school strives for this kind of aesthetic correctness.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God, I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.
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In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.
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I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.
