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Tom Baker Quotes

Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality:
Birth: January 20, 1934

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Drama Rather Most Our Really Lives

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

God Society Name Violence Person

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

Great Time Moment Me Action Forward

'The Big Short' is, among other things, a blistering, detailed indictment of the way Wall Street does business, and its particular villains are the investment banks.

John Lanchester

Business Short Wall Street Way Big

It's mostly women who I get really weird fan mail from.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Women Weird Mail Get Who Fan

Europe has to be about more than market, goods, and money.

Jean-Claude Juncker

Money More Europe Market Than About

As an adult, I'll give a writer 50 pages. If the book doesn't interest me in 50 pages, I'll say the heck with it - there are just too many other things to read. A child won't give you 50 pages.

Child Me Book You Say Things

I do not use the word 'genius' lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no such thing.

Genius Word David Bowie Use Lightly

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

Louise Bourgeois

Work Tree Look Way Just Pole

About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.

Sun Bicycle Years Clothing Out

The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great deal of precision and accuracy. Often a description of that sort, which will work in a book because people can read it slowly - they can turn the pages back and so on - doesn't really work on TV because it interrupts the flow of the moving image.

Work Great Challenge People Moving

Our film industry as well as the audiences are now open to unconventional pairings and subjects, which has aided my journey greatly.

Journey Now Open My Journey Industry

With drama, you know if you're having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn't laugh, then you know you're not being funny. That's a really fun challenge, and that's what draws me to comedy.

Funny Challenge Moment Fun Me Laugh

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