Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes
The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness.
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I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.
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I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
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'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
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Only choices made in love are compassionate. There are no exceptions. Do you have the courage to act with an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome? If not, you have no ability to give or experience compassion. That is the shocking truth.
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My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
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I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.
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Pace, like everything else in writing, involves a trade-off. If you're not offering the reader a lot of action to keep her interested, you must offer something else in its stead. Slow pace is ideal for complex character development, detailed description, and nuances of style.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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In the past, a writer had to go outside and get to know others before learning about their work, but the Internet has made humanity more accessible for misanthropes like me. I read blogs, tweets, Facebook posts and Reddit threads where people detail their jobs.
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I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
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Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.
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Music was as natural as breathing in our house.
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We say in popular speech that we come into this world, but we do nothing of the kind. We come out of it. In the same way as the fruit comes out of the tree, the egg from the chicken, and the baby from the womb, we are symptomatic of the universe. Just as in the retina there are myriads of little nerve endings, we are the nerve endings of the universe.
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We get better search results and we see more appropriate advertising when we let Google know who we are.
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The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame.
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I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.
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MTV can't do less for me, let's put it that way. I'm fine without them.
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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
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Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself.
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The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness.
