Russell Baker Quotes
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was young.
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Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing back in Los Angeles, but when you look out there... How can you complain when you see a whale cresting, matter-of-factly, as you make your breakfast?
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When we got the lead, it was a surprise for the American team.
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I'm Jewish, so it's like I'm not totally white. I'm, like, gray.
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Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.
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The reader as well as the main character does not view the work from outside. He too is in the labyrinth.
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
