George Pierce Baker Quotes

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

George Pierce Baker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 4, 1866 - January 6, 1935

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If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.

Max Stirner

ChildKnowObjectHowDoesEnnui

Especially for young POC, when we enter majority-white spaces, we feel the need to assimilate, to blend in, to prove ourselves. I don't think we discuss it enough.

Angie Thomas

ThinkFeelEnoughYoungProveNeed

You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.

Michael Franti

YouBackEverythingBlissGiveGet

Our group has been in Asia since 1981 in mining, oil and gas. Now we want to mine not silver and gold, but great stories and people, and change the world of cinema, and we want to do that by walking in the footsteps of Wu Tianming.

Robert Friedland

ChangeGreatChange The WorldPeople

Who knows, I have always lived one day at a time. Probably more adventure and excitement.

Rob Mariano

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The biggest container ship can carry fifteen thousand boxes. It can hold 746 million bananas, one for every European, on one ship.

Rose George

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I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.

Moliere

GoodBeautifulSoupLanguageFeed

There has never been, and there will never be, another human who will be more successful than the humble Teacher, Jesus Christ.

Monica Johnson

TeacherHumbleWillNeverHuman

I wouldn't consider retiring to India: there are too many people, and it's difficult walking along the pavements. I'd love to spend two or three months a year there.

Miriam Margolyes

LovePeopleWalkingYearIndiaTwo

Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.

Luke Bryan

GoodRainSkyGrowing UpLooking

The condition of the wounded touched my heart deeply.

Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

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My wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along. With the first baby, when she cried, we'd think, Oh my God, what do we do now? But with Finley, our fourth - he's the easiest baby ever, and I think that has a lot to do with the fact that we're much more relaxed these days.

Chris O'Donnell

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