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.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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It's like deja-vu, all over again.
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I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames.
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I don't concern myself too much about calories and fat.
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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.
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I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.
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There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.
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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.
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Fingerprints prove you Greystoke. Congratulations. D'Arnot.
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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.
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Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.
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Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?
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'Skins' was the university for me. It was the best years of my life, really. We were all just a bunch of friends.
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When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.
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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.
