Letitia Baldrige Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
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I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
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When people write about me, they usually start off with the headline 'World's Greatest Con Man.'
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After they lose, I think all tennis players go back to a specific part of the match where they wish they had done something different.
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I hate clothes. As soon as I get home every day, I take off as many clothes as possible.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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There are some individuals who look at graphic novels as 'canon,' and they cannot change in any way, shape or form, and that's what makes them in some ways good fans.
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Jeans should never be worn to someone's home if you are having dinner there.
