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I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read -- Harper Lee
Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter. -- George Herbert
I was moved no end by the work of LaVern Baker. -- Johnnie Ray
Baker, baker, can you explain, if truly his heart was made of icing. -- Tori Amos
Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision -- Bill Sienkiewicz
Kyle Baker's work is really funny, but it's also got a very clear vision. -- Bill Sienkiewicz
Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker. -- Lalla Ward
Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that. -- Carla Bley
I don't think I've ever been accused of being faddish. I'm more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker. -- David Miliband
Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker -- Wendelin Van Draanen
How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker -- Gail Collins
I don't think they'd ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I'd love to play Chuck Baker -- Cillian Murphy
Ryan Baker sustained a penalty of play, and we withheld him from play today based on the rules violation. -- Les Miles
My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate. -- Katharine Hepburn
The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin. -- Ernie Isley
In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road. -- C. S. Lewis
The author deduces the best way James Baker serve Reagan as Chief of Staff was to continually remind him why he wanted to be president. -- Chris Matthews
As far as the legal hassling and wrangling and posturing in Florida, I would suggest you talk to our team in Florida led by Jim Baker. -- George W. Bush
Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama's new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney. -- John F. Kerry
The movie's only serious criticism is reserved for Baker's television network, which doesn't think Americans care about Afghanistan - kind of hypocritical given this film's lack of substance. -- David Edelstein
Never tell anyone to be careful, never ask what that noise was, and for the love of God, never, ever say that you'll be right back." "?Evelyn Baker -- Mira Grant
The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one! -- Beau Bridges
Designing the prints was very much like writing a story with characters, [inspired by] some of my my favorite icons of the time: Eva PerÃ³n and Josephine Baker. -- Mia Moretti
I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors. -- Joseph Monninger
I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity. -- Billy Corgan
I loved working with my brother [Beau] and my father [Lloyd] whenever that happened. I had a wonderful experience making "The Fabulous Baker Boys," which I felt was a great movie, too. -- Jeff Bridges
I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it from Mark Linn-Baker. You know - the guy from 'Perfect Strangers.' -- Lev Grossman
Mary Baker Eddy is said to have had a phone installed in her coffin just in case she happened to wake up. I've been told that's an urban myth. Somebody should check it out. -- Margaret Atwood
You spend so much time writing a character the way I did with Buddy Baker and then Green Arrow that you start to care about them. And you almost think of them as people, you know? -- Jeff Lemire
I was born in 1971, and Tom Baker was sort of my obsession as a kid and that's why we got him to do the voice over for 'Little Britain' because I was actually obsessed with Tom Baker. -- David Walliams
Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern Baker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin. -- Jon Landau
There wasn't much work around at the time, I think I found a bit in Germany or something, but we played together and somehow the bassist Laurie Baker got involved as well - I can't remember exactly how. -- Jamie Muir
In Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline seamlessly knits together the past and present of two women, one young and one old. Kline reminds us that we never really lose anyone or anything or â?? perhaps most importantly â?? ourselves. -- Ann Hood
I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty. -- Louise Jameson
[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement. -- Gail Collins
There are so many remarkable playwrights working right now, that I see everything I can. Annie Baker is a genius, I'll see anything she writes. The same for Lynn Nottage, Cynthia Hopkins, and Lisa D'Amour. Anything they've got going on, I'll go see. -- Lucy Alibar
I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the material as if it were myth - that Marilyn Monroe is like this mythical figure in our culture. -- Joyce Carol Oates
We look at the legacy of Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells and Ella Baker, Malcolm X and Martin King. We have, and part of the struggle now in the age of [Barack] Obama is how do we keep alive the legacy of Martin King? -- Cornel West
A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221Â½ B Baker Street and didn't find him. -- Rex Stout
It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling. -- LaToya Jackson
The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to be the 'Ulysses' of rock & roll saxophone, giving the entire chorus over to Raphael Ravenscroft's sax solo, creating one of the Seventies' most enduringly creepy sounds. -- Rob Sheffield
I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I also love the Irish folk singer Mary Black. Other favorites include Chet Baker, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday. -- Jeannette Walls
I never got lessons. I took influence from Chet Baker, Ian Dury, and Joe Strummer. I don't hear my voice and think, 'Yeah, that's a banging voice!' It's more about putting the right emotions into the right words and the lyrics than anything else to me. -- King Krule
I have a treasure trove of Baker memories, all of which reinforce my sense of Howard Baker as one of the most decent people with whom I have worked. While I was simply a young staffer, he never treated me or my colleagues as anything else but equals. -- John Yarmuth
A comedy isn't about being funny," said Mrs. Baker. "We talked about this before." "A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That's how I know." "Suppose you can't see it?" "That's the daring part," said Mrs. Baker. -- Gary D. Schmidt
When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu. -- Larry Harvey
...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature." -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Even if I hadn't been cast as Doctor Who, my acting would probably have been influenced by William Hartnell or Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, and all of the other guys. Because those were the actors that I really watched every moment of, as opposed to Laurence Olivier. -- Peter Capaldi
CIA Interrogator:Have you ever met any jazz musicians you would describe, or who would describe themselves, as anarchists?Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair:Hmmm... ah, there was a trombone player, Wilfred Baker.Bartholomew 'Barley' Scott Blair:He's the only jazz musician I can think of who is completely devoid of anarchist tendencies. -- John le Carre
It was actually, 'Where ever there is television, there is poor old shagged out Tom Baker running across the rocks and punting down the river.' -- Tom Baker
Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread. -- Ion Tiriac
My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me. -- Claiborne Pell
No matter what the recipe, any baker can do wonders in the kitchen with some good ingredients and an upbeat attitude! -- Buddy Valastro
The two things that are going to make you a better baker without even trying are a scale and a thermometer in your oven. -- Tom Douglas
It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker. -- Judd Nelson
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. -- Adam Smith
I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook. -- Jordin Sparks
It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft. -- Honore de Balzac
I don't really cook much. I'm more of a baker. My favorite things to bake that everybody loves, and I can only keep in the house for about ten minutes, are 7-Up cake and Pineapple Upside-Down cake. -- Jada Pinkett Smith
If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference. -- Marina Abramovic
My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area. -- John Lasseter
A part of the placidity of the South comes from the sense of well-being that follows the heart-and-body-warming consumption of breads fresh from the oven. We serve cold baker's bread to our enemies, trusting that they will never impose on our hospitality again. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
I really appreciate the many neighbourhoods of Berkeley. There is still the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. And it has the University of California, which is the greatest gift, to my mind, to be close to it. It keeps the place alive. -- Alice Waters
Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook. -- Julia Child
I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands. -- Ariel Gore
Like many actors, I started off as a monkey. My first job ever was as an extra in Tim Burton's 'Planet of the Apes.' I'm the tiny little monkey in the background. I met Rick Baker doing that - then, because of my size and the fact I was older than 18, he figured I could double Daveigh Chase in 'The Ring.' -- Kelly Stables
You know one scene I always think about is in 'The Godfather', when Marlon Brando's in the hospital. Al Pacino arrives there and enlists the help of the baker to protect his father. The two of them stand outside and the baker fiddles with a cigarette lighter, but Pacino's hands are rock steady. That's when we sort of realize that he can do this. -- Garret Dillahunt
Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding -- Benjamin Franklin
Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist -- Eric Idle
I don't think a baker reads an awful lot about bread. -- Terry Pratchett
My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life. -- Mandy Patinkin
My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker. -- Anthony Hopkins
I'm not a baker so I'm not about to sugar coat it for you. -- Shelly Crane
...the best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker.... -- Pablo Neruda
Sold my guitar to the baker's son for a few crumbs and a place to hide. -- Bob Dylan
When I was little I always wanted to drive a train. That, and become a baker. -- Zach Braff
The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart. -- Joel Salatin
My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me. -- Claiborne Pell
An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them. -- Leigh Hunt
Whether you're the wedding cake baker or the gay couple or the Baptist preacher, radical Islam would kill you all if they could. -- Lindsey Graham
The wheat bought by a farmer to sow is comparatively a fixed capital to the wheat purchased by a baker to make into loaves. -- David Ricardo
You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces. -- Suzanne Collins
My dad actually makes the best cookies. My mum is great baker, too, but doesn't share them - it's tantalising! Luckily for me though, my dad shares his! -- Blake Lively
Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town square must holler, 'Fresh rolls!' if he hopes to feed the townfolk. -- Jeffrey Zeldman
I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute. -- Robert Browning
I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester -- John Thaw
I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester. -- John Thaw
In an age when so many groups are rolling out restaurants faster than your local baker makes donuts, my goal is that each restaurant feels hand-crafted. That they have their own soul. -- Danny Meyer
I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy. -- David Niven
You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree. -- Bertrand Russell
When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance. -- William Butler Yeats

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