Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you--if you happen to be me--with homecoming queens first, then girls next door, and finally anybody who might be pleased to see you now and then at the dinner table and in bed on occasion. You look up from reading the newspaper and realize that no one loves you, and no one burns for you.
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I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
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I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
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I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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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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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.
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I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.
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My biggest fear is that a paparazzi or someone ... is going to come in my backyard and see me when I get in my pool. That would be very unfortunate.
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If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.
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I think 'Never Land' is, like, my first really strong attempt to create music... that can encourage people who share my faith but also challenge and intrigue people who don't.
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What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice doesn't care about who you find. It just keeps pestering you, tormenting you--if you happen to be me--with homecoming queens first, then girls next door, and finally anybody who might be pleased to see you now and then at the dinner table and in bed on occasion. You look up from reading the newspaper and realize that no one loves you, and no one burns for you.
