John Alec Baker Quotes
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
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I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.
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Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
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I've always dreamed of an Olympic medal.
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Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?
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With Big Bird we knew we wanted to do a large, a great big character. He should represent a child so he can make the kinds of mistakes that kids make, and talk about it and be out front about that.
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In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
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Vision with action can change the world.
