Anne Baxter Quotes
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I really wanted to make 'Everest' visceral, real. One thing that amazed me when I was scouting in base camp is the volume of Everest: It's humbling. I wanted to find a way to bring that to the screen. One way was 3D.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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My first book is really comparable to what I do now, where it's pretty surreal and strange at moments, but that being my first book - I wrote that when I was 22; it came out when I was 24 - and it was just really overwritten. I just didn't trust myself as a writer to say something once.
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If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don't respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don't respect is a business model that encourages piracy.
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You always question people's intentions. That may be a combination of having money, having fame, and being a little older.
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My dad A.D. King, Uncle MLK, and Granddaddy King passed on to me their beliefs on biblical marriage. Life is a human and civil right, so is procreative marriage... We must now go back to the beginning, starting with Genesis, and teach about God’s plan for marriage... It's time to start from scratch and lay the foundation all over again.
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As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.
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See into life, don't just look at it
