David Bailey Quotes
The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
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Big Government is the small option: it's the guarantee of smaller freedom, smaller homes, smaller cars, smaller opportunities, smaller lives.
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I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.
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The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a lower to a higher state of rationality. It is obvious that this kind of courage to be must become conformist the moment its revolutionary attack on that which contradicts reason has ceased, namely in the victorious bourgeoisie.
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My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every drama interest I could. When I was 15 or 16 I did drama courses.
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Spontaneity has its time and its place.
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The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
