Nicholson Baker Quotes

One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.

Nicholson Baker

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BookYouFindMoreHeadSomething

Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.

Joe Cocker

MeWantMoveMakeSongsMain

All I know is, he's a good kid, and he's done right all his life. And he always treats other people right.

Joe Jackson

LifeGoodPeopleKnowDoneRight

Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth.

Robert Green Ingersoll

TruthLightManFlameLongLiberty

If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew.

Robert Green Ingersoll

ParentsProblemsBetterWishCredit

In my early campaigns, people would sometimes come up to me at a grocery store or at a shopping mall and say, 'I know you from somewhere.'

Amy Klobuchar

PeopleMeShoppingYouEarlyKnow

That is always really fun when you get to work with a director you understand and uses references you can identify with.

Travis Beacham

WorkFunYouUnderstandDirector

I want to be one of the youngest actors ever to direct a feature. That would be a nice thing to hear. It might prove to be a bigger challenge than I can take, but that's the career I want, like George Clooney.

Tony Revolori

ChallengeCareerI CanNiceWant

Senator Michael Bennet and members of the permanent political class have empowered President Obama's policies and their own agendas rather than the needs of constituents.

Robert Blaha

PoliticalClassPresidentPermanent

I would say that there's definitely some advantages with me being able to talk shop with some of the effects people. Because I come from a post-production world, I can speak shorthand with them. I don't think many other actors can say that and know how the process 100% works.

Masi Oka

PeopleMeWorldSpeakThinkProcess

My writing ability all stems from the blues.

Christine McVie

WritingBluesAbilityStems

In D&D, I love playing the first guy through the door - the guy with the battle-axe. 'Where are the bad guys? Just point me at 'em!'

Brian Posehn

LoveMeDoorBadFirstPoint

When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.

Peter Thiel

LifePathSchoolCollegeMeLaw

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