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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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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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 am very shy with people I don't know.
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Sometimes I hate a shoe in seconds.
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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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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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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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Hunger can bring out the worst in us.
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I'd say the differences are more interesting than the similarities at this point. Certainly no one would ever mistake my music for Steve's [ Reich].
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Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.
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I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
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The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness.
