Elna Baker Quotes
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.
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There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.
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I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.
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I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
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Unjust Cause: This art is worth more than ten thousand staters, that one should choose the worse cause, and nevertheless be victorious. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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Campaign promises are, by long democratic tradition, the least binding form of human commitment.
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I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to lose,Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose.Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night;You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light.
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Using no way as way; Having no limitation as limitation.
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Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.
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Conversations create change. It's easy to call someone 'enemy,' but there's more to it, right?
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I've always tried to vote my conscience.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked. A lot of my contemporaries have done more. I don't have 'I will be a movie star' emblazoned on anything, but I'd like do a bit more screen stuff and then when the time is right come back to theatre. When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.
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The thing with restaurant talk is you’re not supposed to take it to heart.
