Kage Baker Quotes
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did, I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.
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You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
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It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
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I like to race, not to do laps alone.
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I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.
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I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.
