David Bailey Quotes
Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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Luxury stores are such a difficult thing because, ultimately, their purpose is to sell, but I do think you can get more out of a store.
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It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.
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I dazzle you with that footwork.
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'They find us outlandish,' Lopez admitted. 'Extravagant. Eclectic. Unfathomable.'
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There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it.
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Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character from a Chekhov play or a Polanski film. It depends what mood they're in.
