Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes
Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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Imagine how different those classrooms could be if hundreds of Nigeria's most talented recent graduates and professionals channeled their energy not only into the country's banks, but into making education in the country a force for transformation.
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Lying is the rule, not the exception.
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You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.
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I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I would be able to guide them, though I am not a technical person.
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Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.
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I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.
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For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.
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Incompatibility. And besides, I think she hated me.
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Choice of aim is clearly a matter of clarification of values, especially on the choice between possible options.
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The mighty Mahmud, Allah-breathing Lord That all the misbelieving and black Horde Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul Scatters before him with his whirlwind Sword.
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O Mary, go and call the cattle home,And call the cattle home,And call the cattle homeAcross the sands of Dee;The western wind was wild and dank with foam,And all alone went she.
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Sometimes it's cool to play major third and minor third diads back-to-back, or a minor third followed by a root/fifth diad - whatever combo sounds good.
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The goal of jiu-jitsu in self-defense isn't to take someone down to the ground - the goal in jiu-jitsu for self-defense is actually to be able to defend yourself on the ground, get up, and get away from an attacker. That's what the goal is.
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Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.
