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Tom Baker Quotes

We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

Tom Baker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Sad Cool Story Know Single Voices

I didn't really start performing until high school. My whole family is actually in the business, and started in the business in Chicago, so I was going to shows when I was a teeny-tiny kid, but I didn't really start performing until high school.

Jessie Mueller

Family Business School Start Chicago

For a while, I was feeling like I was always playing characters that weren't specifically Korean or specifically Asian, even - that they were characters who were originally written white, and then they would cast me. And I used to consider that a badge of honor because that meant I had avoided stereotypes.

John Cho

Me Honor Feeling White Stereotypes

'Sesame Street' early on and then 'Little House on the Prairie' was a big deal in our house. I always identified with 'Little House' because they were wanderers, and there was something about being an immigrant.

John Cho

Early House Street Immigrant Always

Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' wasn't about a Martian invasion - it was a critique of British colonialism, and... 'The Time Machine' is really an indictment of the British class system.

Robert J. Sawyer

Science Time War Political Class

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

Anita Roddick

Power Shopping Enough Choice Moral

I was very lucky in that I had a happy home life and that I was interested in things my parents wanted to provide for me.

Tom Kitt

Life Home Happy Parents Me Lucky

I have long believed these types of collaborative agreements are a far better approach to federal land management than the contentious battles that too often sidetrack proper resource management.

Mike Simpson

Management Better Long Land Battles

Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.

Jason Katims

Life Story Think You Focused Kid

I do not believe 'Newsweek' is the only catcher in the rye between democracy and ignorance, but I think we're one of them, and I don't think there are that many on the edge of that cliff.

Jon Meacham

Ignorance Democracy Believe Think

Television has taught me an economy of style I didn't have before. I feel it has done me nothing but good.

Diana Rigg

Good Style Me Feel Television Done

My mindset was that I was always going to be in Toronto my whole career, but I was never naive.

DeMar DeRozan

Mindset Career Never Naive Toronto

The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

Cory Doctorow

World Robots Robot Take Did Apart