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.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Wise
  • Back

• 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.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Movie
  • Water
  • Seems

• '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.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Life
  • Father
  • Morning

• 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.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Believe
  • Starting

• 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.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Experience

• My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Family
  • Very
  • Religions

• I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.

  

  Nas
  • Always
  • Matter
  • Rap

• Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Virtue
  • Patriotism
  • Vicious

• 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.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Work
  • Past

• 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.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Time
  • Wrong
  • Frustration

• Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously from.

  

  Rachel True
  • Done
  • Past
  • I Have Learned

• Music was as natural as breathing in our house.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Music
  • House

• 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.

  

  Alan Watts
  • World
  • Universe
  • Baby

• We get better search results and we see more appropriate advertising when we let Google know who we are.

  

  James Gleick
  • Search

• I really appreciate what it takes to create a book. I understand the loneliness that it involves and the excitement and the vulnerability: I especially identify with that.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • Book
  • Vulnerability

• I like to get the body temperature up, the heart rate up. I'll do anywhere from 10 to 25 minutes either on a bike, a rower, a StairMaster, or a combination of the three of those. And then I'll normally run through a 20- to 30-minute session either on the Pilates reformer, the Cadillac, or the Pilates chair.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Bike

• I remember being a student, and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.

  

  Jemima West
  • Remember
  • Walking
  • Friday

• I love the produce section at the grocery store.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Produce
  • Store
  • Grocery

• I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

  

  Caroline Kennedy
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• You can cut your hair how you want, but I think you should get to where you wear it normal for the future.

  

  Joey Bishop
  • Future
  • Hair
  • Wear

• The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Mistake
  • Sweet
  • Worst