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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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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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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I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.
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I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.
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We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors.
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Vision with action can change the world.
