Annie Baker Quotes

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

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• Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Society
  • Fashion
  • Reflection

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Guy
  • Hair
  • Thought

• Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Never
  • Boy

• Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Man
  • Black
  • Traditions

• I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Hands

• When I'm reading material, if I'm a little bit afraid of a part and I'm willing to admit that to myself, then I'll do it, definitely. If I'm worried about being able to do it, to get it - I absolutely just love it.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Reading
  • Afraid
  • Worried

• I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Country
  • Man

• The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Best
  • King

• When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • Books
  • Alien
  • Resurrection

• As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Long
  • Government
  • Internet

• You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Black

• Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Want
  • Me
  • Admit

• Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Film
  • Confidence
  • Commitment

• I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Balance

• I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Country
  • Family

• What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • World
  • Art
  • Doing

• I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Class

• I did a modeling gig for Burberry once, and it was a great experience, but no I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot easier than acting.

  

  Alex Pettyfer
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Model

• I'm a big believer in your offensive limitations come from your quarterback.

  

  Kirby Smart

• Rock is periodically pronounced dead by clear rock critics - killed by world music, or by hip-hop, or electronica, or the Backstreet Boys. But if you wait a year, it comes back to life.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Home

• I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.

  

  Burt Ward
  • Children

• Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

  

  Annie Baker
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