Baker Brownell Quotes
Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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The best traders are not right more than they are wrong. They are quick adjusters. They are better at getting right when they are wrong.
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Technique isn't important. Technique is in the blood. Events and mood are more important than good light and the happening is what is important
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Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.
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When you play the young girl a lot, you can be in the movie a lot and have nothing to do.
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I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
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Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.
