Rick Baker Quotes
When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.
Quotes to Explore
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
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When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational?
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
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If you can sing together, you can live together.
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Half of life-the interesting half of life-we don't even have a name for.
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And Israel is not only our ally; it is a beacon of what democracy can and should mean… If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.
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The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.
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When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
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Traveling, I've met Ghanaian people who have seen me in minor stuff, but they see the name Ato Essandoh, and they recognize it as a Ghanaian name. They come up to me and are always so excited. You don't think about it, but they really absorb American culture.
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A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.
