Simon Baker Quotes
For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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It's not ideal to always be one eye on the Blackberry and two arms around my children. For the sake of mothers out there who don't have the Blackberry but do have the children and are hoping someone will be raising their voice on their behalf, it's a great privilege.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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You just want to be able to have a nice career and make a living at it.
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It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.
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It has to do - I think - with growing up in an apartment, with my aunt and my cousins right next door to me, with the door open, with neighbors walking in and out, with people yelling at each other all the time.
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I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.
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Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.
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Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
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There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.
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The development of exponential technologies like new biotech and AI hint at a larger trend - one in which humanity can shift from a world of constraints to one in which we think with a long-term purpose where sustainable food production, housing, and fresh water is available for all.
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The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.
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My work is all about how we consume. To me it's important to know where things come from. Generally, our products today are so cheap, you know there's something wrong. Things are not made in a good way. I want to make things that are. I want to make the story behind products visible.
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I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there weren't too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.
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For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.
