Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes
Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.
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I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 104–06
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It is like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock, which not only is itself discredited but casts a shade of doubt over all previous assertions.
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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Everything that pushes up out of the earth I love. Everything under the earth, root vegetables, I love to cook.
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We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.
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We're getting rewarded. We don't give up on the play and we show some character at the same time, but there is a long way for us to get to where we want to be.
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I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.
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I'm old enough to remember seeing James Brown live.
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Let me say this: I think men are a full-time job, and I'm young and I already have one job. I'm just focused on my career.
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I really can't imagine not singing again.
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People who text a lot are not my favorite thing.
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Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.
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I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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Some writings could sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
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I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both wild and domestic at the same time.
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Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.
