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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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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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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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.
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I remember being a student, and I would go every Friday to the Louvre and stay for ages, just walking around.
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I started out with machine code and assembly language.
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The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
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Whenever an earthquake or tsunami takes thousands of innocent lives, a shocked world talks of little else. I'll never forget the wrenching days I spent in Haiti last year for Save the Children just weeks after the earthquake.
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I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.
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I have been a huge nerd to my kids. I haven't done the cool movies that they like. With '24,' I gained a lot of respect. '24' is now, it's hip, it's their generation.
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The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.
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I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.
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The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness.
