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Rick Baker Quotes

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.

Rick Baker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: inventor
Nationality: american
Birth: December 8, 1950

Topics

Death Parents Me End Lucky Never

I was quite naughty at school. I was always in the back of the class messing about with the Bunsen burner rather than paying attention.

Jim Sturgess

School Attention Back Class Naughty

I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.

Jeremy Piven

Heart Beautiful City Feel Down More

Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sandwich... My mother's is the best. I've tried many times to make these sandwiches on my own, but it's never the same.

Andy Roddick

Love Mother Best Me Cheese My Own

I didn't become a caddie because I wanted to be a caddie. I was a caddie because that was how I could make money and feed myself. It was work. It was a dignified job.

Angel Cabrera

Work Myself Money Job Become Feed

I was a late bloomer, and that was my issue growing up.

Rozonda Thomas

Growing Up Late Growing Up Issue

We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.

Jonathan Sacks

Fear Live Hope Courage Best Purpose

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

Diane Paulus

Art You Create Kind Director Hired

With 'Pariah,' at the time, I had just come out. I had a coming out experience, and I was writing about it, transposing my experience as an adult: What would it have been like if I had been a teenager in Brooklyn? The funny thing was people thought I was from Brooklyn. I had to be like, 'No, I'm from Nashville.'

Dee Rees

Funny Time Experience People Writing

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.

Christopher Columbus

Believe Unknown Mighty Come Which

In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.

Phil Klay

You Distance Strange Way Write Able

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

Phil Ochs

Struggle Win You Reward Wrong Act

I have long believed that celebrity, the way we worship and package and sell our pop stars, is what filled the need for gods that was once filled by the pictures in stained glass. Hollywood is post-Christian Venice - in other words, a pantheon of saints without the hassle and heartache of religion.

Rich Cohen

Stars Words Religion Long Pictures