Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes

If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.

Charles Baxter

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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

Aaron Neville
- Day
- Singing
- Cold
If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

Salman Rushdie
- Time
- Long
- Country
In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

Uwe Boll
- True
- Problems
- Revenge
Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.

Idris Elba
If the constitution goes, I go.

Kamisese Mara
- Constitution
- Go
- Goes
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.

Barack Obama
- People
- Real
- American