John Alec Baker Quotes
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I feel like I personally have been lucky.
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
Nastassja Kinski
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Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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New York City has an integration problem.
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Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
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If you're not a beautiful person, you can't do anything about it.
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
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When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
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Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
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They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.
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Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.
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I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.
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This car of mine, I am tickled to death with it. The machine is nearly everything, its power, stability and balance. The driver, allowing for his experience and courage, is much less.
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I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.
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As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.
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We must be humble and listen to the people who elected us to lead.
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So, are you... intrigued ... by Stanhope?" "Intrigued by him?" "Indeed. Do you find him ..." he paused. "Intriguing?" she teased. He sent her an exasperated look.
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Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.
