Charles Baxter (Charles Morley Baxter) Quotes

It's better to be nominated for awards than not to be nominated for them, but of course to some degree such awards National Book Award are always subjective.

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• Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

  

  Nat Wolff
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• I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

  

  Marat Safin
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• Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
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• When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.

  

  Tamron Hall
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• I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

  

  Barry Hannah
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• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
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• If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

  

  Abigail Adams
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• I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• It's like deja-vu, all over again.

  

  Yogi Berra
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• I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames.

  

  Larry Ellison
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• I don't concern myself too much about calories and fat.

  

  Hannah Marks
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• Deep in the human nature, there is an almost irresistible tendency to concentrate physical and mental energy on attempts at solving problems that seem to be unsolvable. Indeed, for some kinds of active people, only the seemingly unsolvable problems can arouse their interest.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
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• I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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• There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.

  

  Laura Carmichael
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• Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.

  

  Garrett Camp
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• Fingerprints prove you Greystoke. Congratulations. D'Arnot.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
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• I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very 'toppy' lighting, which makes a child look 50. Ten o'clock is very good. If someone is taking a picture, you say, 'Lamps at 10 o'clock,' then everybody looks lovely.

  

  Joanna Lumley
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• People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That's the marketing, the spin. Life is challenging. But I have courage, strength, and enough good health to see the positive.

  

  Carmen Dell'Orefice
  • People
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• I always have a book that I write during competition. I need it with me, just to read back and reflect and look forward. If I'm feeling anxious, it helps me.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• When I first decided I was going to have a go at writing a book - and really, it was a mid-life crisis - I was 39. I was in business with my husband; we had a very busy lifestyle and quite a hectic schedule running this flourishing business in travel, and I found myself waking up and realising that I didn't want to do this anymore.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
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• I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
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• In my book, 'The Big Three in Economics,' I found that the press has frequently and prematurely written the obituary of Adam Smith and his free-market philosophy, only to see a new and more vibrant global marketplace reemerge after being savagely attacked by Keynesians, Marxists, and assorted socialists.

  

  Mark Skousen
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• It's better to be nominated for awards than not to be nominated for them, but of course to some degree such awards National Book Award are always subjective.

  

  Charles Baxter
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