Simon Baker Quotes
The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great.
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.
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All I can say is that I did admire 'The Lives of Others', which I thought was really about something and beautifully done.
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Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.
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Actors don't have real value.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I'd want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I'm a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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Without a dog, you'd never have anyone demonstrate how important it is to stop every day and smell the roses... and then lift your leg on them.
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Hillary Clinton lies about Benghazi, she lied about emails, she is still defending Planned Parenthood, and she is still her party's frontrunner.
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
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I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.
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'In a dojo... you will never become any good unless you believe in yourself.'
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We'll be really tight by the time we get down there to you guys. Everyone will have a really good time. It's trite to say thanks to the fans, but we really mean it. We look forward to rocking everyone's socks off.
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It's not just a struggle for blacks to be accepted by whites, but the other way around as well. A lot of people don't see that.
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Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well.
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Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
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The rich are different only because people treat them as if they were.
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People ask me all the time how I prepare and, to tell you the truth, I think if what's on the page is rich and compelling, as far as I'm concerned, if it's beautifully presented on the page, all you have to do is put yourself there and pretend, and the rest takes care of itself. That is, unless it's a real stretch with an accent or if history matters where research has to be done.
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The rich get richer and the poor get the picture. I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great.
