Blake Bailey Quotes
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A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.
Abby Wambach
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I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to do that, but I like the more natural styles.
Ed O'Neill
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In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.
Om Puri
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If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
Oprah Winfrey
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
Edmund White
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde
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Today, the competition is considerably more intense.
Bobby Rahal
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Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.
Oliver Goldsmith
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'American Idol' gives people really wonderful opportunities, and they shouldn't take flak for what people do with that opportunity after they leave the show. A lot of casting rooms I was in, that was the only thing on my resume, and people would just be like, 'Oh, here's Katie Stevens. Another 'American Idol' girl who thinks she could be an actor.'
Katie Stevens
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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
Larry David
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What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.
Jean-Francois Lyotard
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If possible, be funny.
Blake Bailey