Simon Baker Quotes
It's always difficult when you're on a show that goes for more than a year or a couple of years.
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I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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I just want to be really clear about this: Anyone who has read Colin Powell's biography - there's an entire section where he talks about experiencing segregation. Colin Powell did not appear when he became head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That's not how it happened.
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses in the world.
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I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.
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It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.
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When I was younger, I started taking singing lessons and dance and acting. I just started acting first because that's how everything happened.
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I do some eccentric dancing.
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It's always difficult when you're on a show that goes for more than a year or a couple of years.
