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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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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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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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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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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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
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Doing the thing you are scared of is much harder than not being afraid of anything. It is easy to be brave. It is not so easy to be scared and do a brave thing anyway.
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I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group thinking, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing living in my chest.
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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.
