David Bailey Quotes
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.
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It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
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Russia's assertiveness in global affairs is something I look upon with great concern, which we need to address with eyes wide open and a healthy degree of skepticism.
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
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I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
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Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
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Surprisingly, I am great at kiteboarding, but I'm not great at surfing.
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My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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I could have probably raised them in L.A. and they would have been great and had so many things at their fingertips and been exposed to so many things. But we travel a lot, so I don't think that moving out of town is sheltering the girls at all. Maybe protecting them a little bit more, trying to prolong their youth.
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They botched 'Raise the Titanic' so badly that I waited 20 years to do it again.
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If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.
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Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
