Anita Baker Quotes
If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
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That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.
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I am an economist, not an astrologer.
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When you're placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the past, become obsolete. You have to focus on the here and now.
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Commercials are 20 seconds long, so you don't get to experiment with your characters. But in films, you get to try out your acting skills.
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There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.
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What is called posterity is the posterity of the work of art.
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If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.
