Les Baxter Quotes
I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.
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I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.
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I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
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Last I checked, the album was #82 out of the top 200 on the Billboard charts thanks to you all. I pray that keeps moving up and with your help it will.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.
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A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!
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The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.
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Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.
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I love South Florida; this is where I am from, so I don't think there is anything more rewarding than knowing that where you grew up is standing behind you and supporting you.
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Somehow, I'm in denial about being desirable. But every time my wife tells me to shave or cut my hair or clean up my look, I playfully boast to her that I'm the most desirable man!
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I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
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I went through different styles but realized Ray-Bans are the classics. You can't go wrong with them. I explore and cheat on them occasionally, but I always go back to the aviators.
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It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.
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When we are on tour we also take chances.
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I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod 'em a little bit.
