Kage Baker Quotes
True believers aren’t real receptive to the idea that what they’re telling you is just mythology.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
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Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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When you hear that a certain man is so good that he wants to help everybody, you may depend upon it that he started the story.
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When I play games, I'll make up little stories for just anything. It's almost the game of making up background stories for people you see on the street. You know what I mean? I wasn't exactly the popular kid in school growing up, so I found myself really observing people, and watching how they interact, and how they react to things.
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True believers aren’t real receptive to the idea that what they’re telling you is just mythology.
