Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes
I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again.Charles Baxter
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.
Omari Hardwick -
I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
B. F. Skinner -
I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
Patrick Kane -
Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
D. W. Griffith -
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch
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If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.
Karl Pilkington -
With good coaching, proper motivation and the right club structure with organic growth, you can achieve an awful lot in football.
Gary Neville -
Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.
Gail Devers -
We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.
Malala Yousafzai -
For me, Kate McKinnon can do no wrong. She is an absolute genius. She's a hero of mine. Melissa McCarthy is hilarious.
Laura Benanti -
Sports saved my life.
Caitlyn Jenner
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
Edgar Mitchell -
But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.
Nathan Lane -
'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.
Eric Fellner -
Moana is an incredible heroine. She's strong... She's got her two feet firmly planted. She's definitely grounded.
Auli'i Cravalho -
I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.
James Patterson -
It might be easy to identify me as so-and-so's son, especially to begin with, but you only get that one first film, after which you have to prove yourself and keep improving.
Dulquer Salmaan
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You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
Yolanda Adams -
I have to get three pages done every day, and there's usually a point about 150 pages in where everything falls apart, where all the plans are for naught. The book has become something else, and I have a nervous breakdown, and then I submit to what the book has become, and I keep going, and that's a terrible and then a great time.
Andrew Sean Greer -
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading
Vladimir Nabokov -
It’s an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. It’s a great time to be alive.
Sy Montgomery -
The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
Gary Weiss -
I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again.
Charles Baxter