Kage Baker Quotes
Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I find that men are far more vain than women.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
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I'll be damned if I'm going to let the white man lick me. There's something out here that I've got to do for my kids, and I'm not going to stop until I've done it.
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A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
