Nora Raleigh Baskin Quotes
When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.
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My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
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I had a lot of energy, and my mom decided to look for a place where I can spend the energy, because I was jumping on the couch and furniture, and I was jumping on the top of the things in the house.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
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If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.
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Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
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If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
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And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
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What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
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I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.
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I am Parisian. I don't love the French.
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Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.
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When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.
