Nora Raleigh Baskin Quotes
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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If you look at any normal organization, the CEO is the person with the highest E.Q. The person with the highest IQ is often in the back room running the financials or the operations. That's topsy turvy.
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.
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Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the world's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.
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I had an instinct to gravitate towards people who were smarter than I was, teachers that were nice people that were trying to do things in life that were constructive, and that's what I gravitated to instead of what I saw and what I was in.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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I never wanted to be a movie star.
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The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
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I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.
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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
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A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
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Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.
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There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.
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If you love our country you are national, and if you love our people you are a socialist.
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It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experience before has been that at least in the evening, you kind of take a deep breath and look around where you are and have some downtime.
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A good religious poem, today, is ambergris, and it is hard to enjoy it for thinking of all those suffering whales; but martyrs are born, not made.
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Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.
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I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.
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Know how to live with the time that is given you.
