Baker Quotes

Two opposite and instructive figures in U.S. journalism during the Trump years are Gerard Baker, editor of the Wall Street Journal, and Martin Baron, editor of the Washington Post.

Nowadays, all actors talk about is what they don’t eat and what kind of juicers they’ve got. That wouldn’t have been a conversation John Hurt would have had with Tom Baker.

My dad would always play Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, and Anita Baker, so I fell in love with them. I would try to make my voice sound like theirs.

The butcher, baker, and candlestick maker have been around a lot longer than supermarkets and Wal-Mart.

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.

I’m not a baker, and I don’t know anything about baking, and I don’t claim to.

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.

The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn’t going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.

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.

I was filming in Roscrea in Co Tipperary. I had great fun watching monks in the monastery there making bread. They even offered me a job as their main baker. One of them said I would make a good monk, but I told him there was a slight problem because I was married.

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.

I don’t think they’d ever make a movie about Chuck Baker but I’d love to play Chuck Baker.

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.

My greatest strength is common sense. I’m really a standard brand – like Campbell‘s tomato soup or Baker’s chocolate.

Years ago, I saw a job for head baker for The Dorchester Hotel in London, and I didn’t want to move away from the North West. But then I thought, ‘I’ve got to do this for my career,’ because I was very ambitious. So I went for it and got the job.

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.’

I am Dr. Britt Baker, DMD, and I’m a professional wrestler. I don’t mean to brag or boast, but I love the recognition for it.

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.

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.

Chet Faker’s a reference to the late Chet Baker. I’m a big fan of his vocal style; it’s quite fragile and soft, and that was a style I wanted to take on.

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.

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.

I’m not a baker, but my patisserie is my baby. I love the idea of good-quality cakes made with top ingredients.

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.

I was really into old musicals. When I was seven or eight, my mum and dad would be like, ‘How does she know who Ginger Rogers is?’ Then, one weekend, Josephine Baker popped up in a French film called ‘Zouzou,’ and I was so stunned because she looked like me.

Generally, if you‘re a baker who’s still learning the ropes, substitutions can be risky. It’s always best to make a recipe the first time as written, and only after that initial success should you make substitutions.

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?

To be classed as Britain‘s best amateur baker was something I never envisaged; but to be able to have such an accolade in my one true passion is absolutely incredible.

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.

No matter what the recipe, any baker can do wonders in the kitchen with some good ingredients and an upbeat attitude!

I listen to a lot of jazz. I’m a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.

The thing is, I was more blues-oriented, more of a purist than in the pop world. That led me into a folk rock trio and to Ginger Baker before I started recording on my own.

The muse of music isn’t just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.

Today, actors aren’t forced to ditch their regional accents like they used to. The best example‘s Tom Baker, a Scouser who went to great lengths to change his accent and ended up with something alien – and fantastic. It’s sad that when the likes of him go, there won’t be those sorts of accents any more.

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.

Dad was a baker, and Mum was tied up with church and the social club.

I have a theory that because my kitchen is small, you can’t preheat an oven and deal with dough at the same time, although maybe it’s just that I’m a bad baker.

I’m a lifelong ‘Doctor Who’ fan. Like, Peter Davison/Colin Baker, lifelong fan.

When I was with the Giants, I played for Dusty Baker, and I love Dusty to death. I think he’s a great manager and great person, but he platooned me. His reasoning was to get everybody in the lineup. It wasn’t that I couldn’t play every day.

I want to talk about my very first play, when I was in eighth grade. One day, my English teacher, Mrs. Baker, announced that we were going to read ‘On Borrowed Time’ out loud in class. I was a mediocre student; I was terrified that she was going to call on me, so I hid my head.

I wear lots of Junk de Luxe sweaters, Cult of Individuality jeans – which are about the best for me – and Fiorentini + Baker boots. With fashion I’m good on jeans and boots. Ask me about anything else, and I’ll just look at you doe-eyed and not understand what you’re talking about.

Think both big and small. Loving to bake doesn’t only mean becoming a baker. It could mean starting a blog, becoming a food photographer, or going into organic chemistry.

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.

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.

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!

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.

I never made kimchi before. I talk about my first time making it in the book, and I’m not a big baker, but I imagine it’s like a similar kind of feeling for a lot of people who are bakers where it’s just something that takes time. There’s so much space to be reflective and meditative.

I think I was drawn to black culture by the same things that have been drawing the entire world to it since the days of Richard Wright, Josephine Baker and Louis Armstrong. This culture is original, potent and seductive.

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.

My husband‘s a very good baker. He does all the baking at home – if there is any – because I’m a coeliac. I tend to avoid stuff like that, I don’t even buy it.

I was in Fort Lauderdale from about age 7 to 14. And that’s where I learned the most about music. My favorite DJ was this guy named DJ Laz and the Miami bass guys. I was super into, like, Arthur Baker, that kind of stuff.

I’m a very keen baker; I pride myself on my cakes. I go along the classic sponge line, but I like to jazz it up: I’ve made some psychedelic birthday cakes.

I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak and now he lives in a little village in New Hampshire and he’s a baker.

It feels dangerous when people say, ‘Oh, Sean Baker focuses on marginalised people.’ And offensive. As if I’m standing there with my planner thinking, ‘OK, where’s the next marginalised group I can make a movie about?’

Ricky Baker is very different to me. You could see some similarities, but he’s a little rebel. He’s a rebellious kid.

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.

I started reading the Carlos Baker biography of Dad but couldn’t finish it. I had the impression I was reading about a guy who, well, just wouldn’t be very nice to be around. I wish Baker could have known Dad because exactly the opposite was true.

I don’t think I’ve ever been accused of being faddish. I’m more Marks & Spencer than Ted Baker.

Over time, I’ve loved jazz, Miles Davis and Chet Baker, then Janis and Jimi and Creedence, then classic rock.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

My mum loves jazz, and together we listen to loads of Chet Baker back home.

When I poked Baker Mayfield in the ribs – police video, height – poked him in the ribs, kind of a reach. Oh, it bothered him. He fired back every time. Every time. Because Baker was not ready to go from best college team to lousy NFL team. That’s a certain level maturity and self-esteem that few have.

Science is a hobby, and I’m really into it, but it’s not my job. My job is to learn about comedy and to make people laugh. Science, for me, is probably a bit like Danny Baker’s love of football or Rod Stewart’s obsession with train sets.

My mother had a gorgeous singing voice, and she’d play these amazing vinyls. My favorite was ‘But Not for Me,’ on the 1954 album ‘Chet Baker Sings.’

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.

It’s like wine and food, or coffee and a pastry – coffee’s awesome and a chocolate croissant is awesome, and together, they’re transcendent. To me, music is the same way. Chris Stapleton is transcendent. Julien Baker is transcendent. Together, they’re going to be euphoria.

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.

Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.

Being a great baker and pastry chef requires the upmost open mind. I try every dessert that comes my way!

My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

Josephine Baker is such an iconic woman that once you’ve touched her and she has touched you, it never goes away. I’m stuck with her. I’m sure 50 years from now, when they write my obituary, they will mention that I played Josephine Baker. It’ll be on my epitaph.

I’m like a magpie and am drawn to anything shiny, sparkly or bright and you really get that with Ted Baker.

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.

I think my favorite role was playing Sarah Baker in ‘Cheaper by the Dozen 1.’ It was my first movie, and I worked with amazing professionals who had such strong work ethics that I immediately learned how to work in this industry.

I remember Tom Baker once said to me many years ago: never go back, particularly with TV shows. This is because the track record for characters returning to series they’ve left is not very good.

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!

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.