J. A. Baker Quotes

Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today.

Love looks like something.

The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.

So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

I never had a lot of ideas. I always have exactly one that is the next project; the idea of a project beyond that project is ludicrous.

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

There is no mysterious essence we can call a 'place'. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber of memory.

I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president

I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

I never read the scripts at all carefully and never wanted to know what was going on, because i felt that being a benevolent alien, that's the way it should be.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.

When judging others it's the intangibles that we often miss.

I'm in love, sweet love. Feel me calling out your name, I feel no shame.

I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.

A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.

In network TV, you have to present the box before you can step outside it.

If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.

A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.

Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

Freddie Mercury taught me 3 thingsdon't take anything too seriously, have fun and always fly first class.

I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.

I used to have to save my allowances to buy a quart of rubber to make a mask, and it's how I spent all my free time.

I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.

Planting and growing increasing quantities of trees is the scientific solution to Earth's environmental dilemma.

You can gauge a country's wealth, its real wealth, by its tree cover.

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, but God did.

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.

Nothing lasts-not even pain.

The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

The physical universe expresses the conscious and unconscious thoughts of mortals.

Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government.

Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.

I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.

Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks.

I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.