C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road."
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Bakers
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Jimmy Buffett
Musician, Author
"We need more fruitcakes in this world, and less bakers!"
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"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."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding"
Tim Robbins
Actor, Director
"There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers."
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"If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens."
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"We need more fruitcakes in this world and less bakers! We need people that care! I'm mad as hell! And I don't want to take it anymore!"
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"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."
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"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."
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"I don't think a baker reads an awful lot about bread."
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"I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read"
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"Bee not a Baker, if your head be of butter."
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"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."
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"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."
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"There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world."
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"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"
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