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.

Charles Baxter

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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.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Work
  • Music

• Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • People
  • Nice
  • Makeup

• 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.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Information
  • Search
  • New

• My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Passionate

• 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.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Human
  • Try
  • Emotions

• 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.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • End
  • Made
  • Natural

• 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.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Want
  • Value
  • Wealth

• The only model to follow is pure Islam.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Model
  • Islam
  • Follow

• You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Great
  • Famous

• Atlanta embraced us. We have so much respect for them, and they have respect for us.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Respect
  • U.S.
  • Atlanta

• The ceaseless rain is falling fast, And yonder gilded vane,Immovable for three days past, Points to the misty main.

  

  Rain
  • Past
  • Rain

• 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!

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Painting

• 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.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Doubt

• I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • Music
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • Country
  • Truth
  • Future

• I'll never get bored of seeing flawed women on the screen.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Women
  • Bored

• 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.

  

  Clementa C. Pinckney
  • People
  • America
  • Culture

• I think that if you are looking at a comic that's made by one person, that there's just a level of intimacy that I don't really see anywhere else.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Intimacy

• Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

  

  Chuck Close
  • Painting
  • Frozen

• Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Character
  • Tree
  • Shadow

• In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Character
  • Humanity
  • Bombs

• Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair enough, but it does remove the mythic power of the feminine and masculine principles. So I prefer it in its original form, even if you have to wade through Mallory's 'Le Morte d'Arthur' - people smashing people for pages and pages! It still has the resonances of myth about it, which makes it work for me. I don't want to know if Mordred led an unhappy childhood or not.

  

  Michael Moorcock
  • Character
  • Childhood
  • Enough

• Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Character
  • Choices
  • Stories