Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

Charles Baxter

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• The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Opportunity
  • Space
  • Eyes

• I never thought I'd be an actor.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Actor

• I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

  

  Zoe Wanamaker
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Thought

• I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.

  

  Frances Bay
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I'm here today because I hated everything else.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Today
  • Everything
  • Here

• The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • Mind

• I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Time
  • Head
  • Crown

• I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Family
  • Father
  • Fight

• At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Trying
  • Voice
  • Sound

• I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!

  

  Gabriela Isler
  • Sometimes
  • Fruit
  • Apple

• In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Work
  • Interesting

• I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

  

  Imani Hakim
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'd try to educate us as much as he could and was always looking out for us. He was very protective.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Father
  • Death
  • Memories

• I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Up
  • Work
  • Character

• I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Song
  • Unique
  • Unknown

• My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Style
  • Like
  • Color

• I have beautiful, beautiful clothes, designed by my bachelor boy son, Kenny. Kenny has a big following as it is, and even Lady Gaga has asked Kenny to design dresses for her. But Kenny isn't very keen on, well, shall we say, extreme women. He likes someone that women all over the world can identify with.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.

  

  Eyvind Kang
  • Truth
  • Learning
  • Literature

• Writers of literature make very little money.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Money
  • Literature
  • Writers

• My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Job
  • Professional
  • First

• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Business
  • Character

• That's fucked. That's fucked. You don't look at the fucking percentage. You look at the gross.

  

  David Mamet

• My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Literature
  • Corruption
  • Notion