Gene Baur Quotes
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I really like just super dry comedy.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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I was so naive in radio technique that I knew nothing about timing. I would write pages on Honus Wagner and then get only half through by the time the show ended. I eventually learned, but there was nobody there to school me.
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I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.
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Literature is no longer Necessary Teaching is left.
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Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
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I’ve never planned any part of my career-except being an artist. And I was pushed into that corner because I thought being an artist was the only way to have a little freedom.
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I think that's what makes characters interesting - when you paint a person into a corner, and you see what they do to get out of that corner. It's what makes drama drama.
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I grew up in a very urban, bohemian family where everyone was a hippie or a pacifist. It was artistically and intellectually stimulating, but they were definitely not into outdoor sports or activities.
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Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.
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You have to have the kind of personality where you're resilient and you can get up and keep moving and learn what there is. What I tell my employees is, 'I want you to make mistakes. If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. But, when we make a mistake, let's all study it. Let's all learn from it. After that, we want to make different mistakes. We don't want to keep making the same mistakes.'
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There is nothing more classic in the realm of casual than jeans and a white tee - a look that is inherently Americana and reminiscent of the American Dream - an optimistic dream of opportunity, individuality, freedom, and the embodiment of one living their truth.
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I want to buy pizza, but my players don't want pizza; maybe they don't love pizza. Because I said when we make a clean sheet, I will buy everybody a pizza. Maybe they wait until I say, 'Okay, a good dinner.' I told them, the clean sheet, I buy everybody a pizza. I think they wait until I improve my offer: 'Okay, a pizza and a hot dog.'
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I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never have thought I could do. Still, I've never had a hankering or an ambition for any particular role.
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I dream of a vegan world - that's where I want everything to go.
