Blake Bailey Quotes
I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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Yeah, I am lazy. There's no doubt about that.
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I'm one of the best condensers in the business.
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
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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.
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My children and their happiness have always been my greatest concern.
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A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in mind what it is they are buying and if it is really worth it to them.
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They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.
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I had no interest in cinema until I was 24 years old. My friends had posters of their favourite stars in their houses, but I was far from a film buff - very detached from films.
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The telling room is, in Spanish, known as 'el contador.'
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My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.
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There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
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Life is short. No one can guarantee how many days we have here on earth. Hug your loved ones tight and savor every moment.
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How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves! ... You can always - always - give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness!
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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.
