Simon Baker Quotes
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
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It was improv that really helped me start coming up with recipes and just believe in my instincts. That's why the first recipe I made up was 'I Ain't Chicken Chicken' because I finally felt bold and fearless in the kitchen, which was an entirely new feeling for me.
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I'm not in the business of politics.
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.
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Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.
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Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
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I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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There is no panic you can't allay, no problem you can't solve.
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I do have a lot of Australian friends.
