Brian Baker Quotes
I think I've always had it in me. I just haven't quite been able to put it together for a whole match.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in that. That's a great person; they're going to be a great doctor.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which is very serious. That balance is very hard to strike. But it can be done.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Being on stage was all about the palpable energy of a rapt audience hopefully buying into a life onstage. The immediate connection with the audience was the best part for me. The camera is not as fun, but your work is preserved forever. There's immortality to it.
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Veterans are one area where Republicans and Democrats have made progress together.
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I liked the idea of exposing the beams in collaborative novel. And there are many - especially in the crime world - there are many people working together: James Patterson and his stable of sub authors; and then there are like Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman and Jason Starr.
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To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.
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There must be some deep psychological reason why we turn so instinctively toward home at this special time. . . . A place where every day will be Christmas, with everybody there together. At home.
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I think I've always had it in me. I just haven't quite been able to put it together for a whole match.
