Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes
Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.
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In my view, if you want to get ahead and build wealth, you have to get over your delusion that something only has value if you can measure it.
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The only model to follow is pure Islam.
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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Atlanta embraced us. We have so much respect for them, and they have respect for us.
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The ceaseless rain is falling fast, And yonder gilded vane,Immovable for three days past, Points to the misty main.
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Yesterday Sisley was looking for me everywhere. Madame Latouche told me that he wanted some information about the technique of painting fans. Well, this means my fans are spoken of.. .I only fear one thing: that they will finally say that's all I am good for! fans!
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No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.
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I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.
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The economy, unemployment, the future... Politicians, economists, and journalists are constantly debating these key issues for our country but rarely come to an answer. But behind all this, there is a fairly simple truth: no matter what anybody says, jobs are hard to come by.
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I'll never get bored of seeing flawed women on the screen.
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We don't see ourselves as just a place where we come to worship but as a beacon and a bearer of the culture and a bearer of what makes us a people. But I like to say that this is not necessarily unique to us. It is really what America is all about.
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I love playing characters, so I'm always telling my agents, 'Don't worry if the character description is something you think I'm not. Let me try to be that person.'
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Even on your hiatus, you feel like you need to keep the character in the back of your brain.
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The kids that are different and out there and expressive and are bold with those choices, those are the people that grow up to be people we all want to hang out with, that become celebrities or become really successful in what they do because they believe in who they are.
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I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
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Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.
