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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I've only twice in my life come across someone with both high IQ and high EQ naturally; and that was because their parents were super high EQ, and the parents just EQ'd the hell out of them. They're inevitably very successful because now you've got someone who's sharper than the average person and well-rounded, too.
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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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Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at.
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First of all, magicians practice a lot. It requires a lot of discipline. Second, you can't be afraid to be a leader, to go onstage, and you learn to have presence. You need to be able to visualize and connect and create. Most important, you learn to think outside the box.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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It's very important that children learn to use technology - it's part of life - but also that they learn when to put it down.
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As actors, we want to challenges ourselves and put ourselves in different situations to see how we react and deliver a performance.
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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.
