Simon Baker Quotes
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People say I look younger than the music I'm doing just because the songs are older. Hopefully I can keep my youthful look!
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A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.
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I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.
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there is no noise louder than a silent phone.
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Think, walk, talk and act like a nonsmoker and you will soon be one
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By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.
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I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.
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It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
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I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.
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I wanted to tell him that I will never be sorry for loving him. That in a way I still do - that maybe I always will. I'll never regret one single thing we did together because what we had was very special. Maybe if we were ten years older it would have worked out differently. Maybe. I think it's just that I'm not ready for forever.
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Most of us carry at least a weak sense of a correlation between poetry and human possibility that cannot be realized by poems. The poet, by his very claim to be a maker of poems, is therefore both an embarrassment and accusation.
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Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.
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As a writer, you're really in control of almost everything. That's not the case in TV. You have to be prepared to work with a lot of people to make something happen, and you got to be prepared, at least in the beginning, to not be too good at your specific task.
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I would have liked the Beatles never to have broken up. I wanted to get us back on the road doing small places, then move up to our previous form and then go and play. Just make music, and whatever else there was would be secondary.
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We end up producing the opposite of what we intended, and turn our children into unpopular, isolated adults.
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Tom, you couldn’t punch the froth off a Guinness.
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Conversations in French bubble around me like a long-forgotten perfume I am desperate to inhale. Familiar words trickle back, first in a stream then a river, though I've scarcely heard them in half a century.
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French are what they are without excusing themselves to be.
