Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes
In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
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When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
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I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.
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I am not in a hurry to do Hindi films. If it is destined, when it has to happen, it will.
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I tend not to reread books, because there's always something new to discover, but Dorothy Sayers is a comfort grab for me - there's no mood so bleak or cold so bad that Lord Peter and Bunter can't make it right.
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We believe that societies and economies only advance as far as individuals are free to carry them forward. And just as freedom cannot exist when people are imprisoned for their political views, true opportunity cannot exist when people are imprisoned by sickness, or hunger, or darkness.
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We are robust when errors in the representation of the unknown and understanding of random effects do not lead to adverse outcomes -fragile otherwise.
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Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.
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Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do.
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Two is company; three is fifty bucks.
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The draft not being exceptionally deep, you basically take the best player available.
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People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.
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I look back at 'Saturday Night Live' and I think, some people didn't like me doing 'Weekend Update.' Who cares? A lot of people did. When you're reaching that many people, you're not going to have everybody like you.
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I don't see myself coaching gymnastics. I see myself involved in the sport in the future but involved in other things as well.
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Then I turned round and saw the British Union Jack under which I had been sitting and it was then that I realised that my poor country, India, did not even have a flag of her own - and it was this that triggered off my complete breakdown.
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We appreciate size, but only if it is robust growth. Just to be big is not a target.
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My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.
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The reality is that who you are is who you are right this second, not who you were at any moment in the past because it doesn't exist anymore. It's done. It's over.
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In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.
