Kage Baker Quotes
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.'
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One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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I'm painfully middle class.
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Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.
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In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK.
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Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
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Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-dollar man. I mean, this is the truth; it's not a lie.
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Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
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No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might - but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.
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Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
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The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.
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I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.
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Guys have to look up to somebody. Everybody needs to have their own role and somebody has to be the star.
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People sometimes tell me that I don't talk or act or look like a metal fan. Well, what does a metal fan look like? I've found people from all walks of life who love metal.
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My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.
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I felt my design point of view was more welcomed in New York, that I could show my collections in the way I wanted to show them.
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I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.
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I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.
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If you had your way you’d pass a law to abolish all the little jobs, the little things. But then you’d leave yourselves nothing to do between the big jobs and you’d have a devil of a time thinking up things to do so you wouldn’t go crazy. Instead of that, why not let nature show you a few things? Cutting grass and pulling weeds can be a way of life, son.
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'They find us outlandish,' Lopez admitted. 'Extravagant. Eclectic. Unfathomable.'
