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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I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
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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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No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
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The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.
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You can't build a society without law.
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I feel like everything I do in the hip-hop world has an influence. People don't really notice what I did until somebody else does it. As far as hip-hop goes, I want to continue to make good music, and good art. I don't really follow the state of hip-hop.
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Vision with action can change the world.
