David Bailey Quotes
I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.
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I love books.
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I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to me.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.
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Those who are greatly occupied in physical or material matters lack sufficient knowledge or have only superficial understanding of spiritual matters. Therefore, such people's opinions and judgments concerning spiritual matters carry no weight.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
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There's no way to resolve Syria without Iran being involved, given its financing of Assad and the fact that Hezbollah is probably the most effective fighting force that Assad can count on.
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You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.
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Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.
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Cannes is the oldest film festival in the world, and I've long dreamed of having one of my films there in competition. It's a dream that lay dormant for a long time; I stopped believing in it.
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I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.
