Mitchell Baker Quotes
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I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Talking about relationships is a surefire way to jinx them.
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Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
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You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.
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I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.
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One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my name.
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I try to take B genre movies and treat them as if they're A dramas. Get the cinematographers, get the actors to do an A drama, but it just happens to be about aliens or ghosts or crazy people, or killers, or whatever it is.
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The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
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So, I can live with people saying, "I didn't like it." But I can't live with people saying, "There just seems to be no plan here," 'cause there is a plan. And a lot of people fall into that, where they don't know what their show is yet. Their pilot gets picked up, and they have to figure it out. I would hate to be in that situation.
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Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.
