J. A. Baker Quotes

Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

I don't think "Reganomics" will ever fully end. I mean, Reaganomics, to put it simply, was trying to get low taxes for wealthy people. And wealthy people are still there pushing for low taxes.

You've got to connect with the things that you love.

I'm a middle-aged dad, which means I have no social time or life to speak of, and so I connect with my buddies with my Xbox.

That's what baseball is all about right there, a matter of will.

The only thing that's in my control is to win ballgames and God is always taking care of me.

I'm not a guy that sits around and does nothing.

I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.

Look at me! I'm big! I'm strong! I'm a superior example of froghood and capable of protecting us both!

She was suddenly aware of him in a way she hadn't been before. Hayward was good-looking in a sweet and wholesome way.

Unfortunately being born princess doesn't autimatically make a girl graceful or confident, a fact I've lamented for most of my fourteen years

Without my protectionm your journey is doomed before you begin.' Great! I thought. Even the snake is a critic!

I'd always wanted to believe that my ancestors were better people than they probably were. - Princess Emma

I had been friendly with people who were in the Communist party and all the rest of the Left forces, which were oriented in the direction of mass action.

The thing with restaurant talk is you’re not supposed to take it to heart.

The drama is a great revealer of life.

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

I hope I never do anything to hurt baseball.

I hope he (Babe Ruth) lives to hit one-hundred homers in a season. I wish him all the luck in the world. He has everybody else, including myself, hopelessly outclassed.

Listen more often than you speak.

It’s a buzz every time you perform under pressure.

I wish my name was Tom Kite.

I tried to walk with my head high. It was really hard.

Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival.

If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.

Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased.

The old Catholic parties hounded me with a Christian hatred from station to station, city to city, one stage to another.

I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.

In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

The 1910 Edison film of Frankenstein was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.

I love the friendly faces of old sorrows; I have no secrets that they do not know.

I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.

Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss. Joy. Sacrifice.

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away ones worldly goods.

I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

If you’re an actress, you’re always on one diet or another — it’s a way of life.

Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.

Just to have the confidence to say, "Which end of that spectrum am I usually on?" That's been very helpful to me. Because it's a really awkward setting.