Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes
As my mother once said to me, ‘They’re quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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I grew up in a joint family of 60 people with one kitchen. So I am a firm believer in the family concept.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.
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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
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I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being.
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I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.
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It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.
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I swear on everything holy I do not know what's on the Internet about me.
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I just don't let music genres define me.
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Conservation of energy also protects our environment.
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There's this sort of model that exists in Nashville that we think we have to abide by: You put out a record, and in two years you have to put out another one and have three or four singles. There are all these rules that I've just sort of thrown out the window.
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I will try to make a doll of Oksana with a little dog.
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Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
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The five of us don't know how to exist in any other way. We are an ambitious bunch, I guess.
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Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.
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We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
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My grandmother was a nanny for an Orthodox Jewish family, and she would come home and tell us about that.
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What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism.
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As my mother once said to me, ‘They’re quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.
