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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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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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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A lot of who I am is connected to my size, and I am so happy with who I am.
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Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.
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It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
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I am not a tree-hugger and I don't think mine is an extreme point of view.
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The gag rule is, is that if any program receiving United States funding for Family Planning cannot mention, cannot speak the word "abortion" in the Third World.
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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.
