Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
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What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.
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Endless good now comes to me in endless ways.
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He [Harry S. Truman] loved politicians - even Republicans.
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None of my problems come from the people I've killed.
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There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.
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It was a wonderful thing to see the guys again.
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I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
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I have fun, but I think about the games. But, I don't think I obsess about it.
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I tend to view the superstitions or fragments of myth as triggers for lyric inquiry. I also find I think of this kind of language as ars poetica - if we can find the right combination of words, we can make something improbably or extraordinary happen.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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And if you think that you're showing your love to Catherine by suffering the way you've been doing, then somewhere along the way, I must have messed up in raising you." "You didn't mess up...." "I must have. Because when I look at you, I see myself, and to be honest, I'd rather see someone different. I'd like to see someone who learned that it's okay to go on, that it's okay to find someone that can make you happy. But right now, it's like I'm looking in the mirror and seeing myself twenty years ago.
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When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge.
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Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.
