Anita Baker Quotes
I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Life is like an analogy.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
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People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
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I can see my competitors sweating, and I am cool as a cucumber.
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Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people.
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There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.
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My life as an actor has submerged me completely because I don't know why.
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How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point?
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I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.
