Blake Bailey Quotes
I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.
Blake Bailey
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I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?
Val Kilmer
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I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
Orhan Pamuk
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I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.
Hans Blix
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I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold.
Waris Ahluwalia
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I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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The commentators of 1963 speak, in discussing Africa, of the Monrovia States, the Brazzaville Group, the Casablanca Powers, of these and many more. Let us put an end to these terms. What we require is a single African organisation through which Africa's single voice may be heard, within which Africa's problems may be studied and resolved.
Haile Selassie
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If I'm in a bad mood, my thing is I go clean! That's what relaxes me! I go and clean everything.
Corbin Bleu Reivers
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The dying crimson of the West That faintly tinged his haggard cheek, Fell on her as she stood, and shed A glory round the patient head.
Lewis Carroll
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I'm not always as disciplined as I should be. I don't sit down and write every day, but I should.
Jenny Lewis
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
Manu Bennett
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What do you want in your life? What do you want in your relationships? And if you say, I'd like them to be harmonious; I'd like them to be free; I'd like not to be in a state of blame all the time or shame. If you answer like that, then I would say, look at what's unforgiven. Look at where you know you did wrong and you would like to go to that person and say - I'm sorry. Can we start over? If you want to have a happier life, I would say, practice forgiveness.
Elizabeth Lesser
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I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.
Blake Bailey