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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I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
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There are really only so many foods and so many ways you can prepare them.
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I don't feel like I need to share my personal life, and I don't care if people think I'm gay or not. Assume whatever you want. You do it anyway.
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The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.
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See into life, don't just look at it
