Blake Bailey Quotes

The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.

Blake Bailey

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• Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Power
  • Black
  • Brain

• Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Sometimes
  • Difficult
  • Throat

• No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Think
  • You
  • Like

• I'm interested in playing, not working.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Working
  • Playing
  • Interested

• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Sky

• Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Age
  • Stop
  • Someone

• At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Time
  • American
  • House

• I have been acting since I was thirteen.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Acting
  • Been
  • Thirteen

• I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Up
  • Good
  • Lose

• And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Reality
  • Acting
  • Difficult

• Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Think
  • Well
  • Did

• Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Words
  • Attention
  • Behavior

• To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Man
  • Mean
  • Door

• There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • School
  • Kids
  • Black

• If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Thought
  • Find
  • Problems

• This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Great
  • Long
  • Depression

• You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Life
  • Success
  • Wisdom

• We encounter very healthy boardroom debates and pretty diverse views, so we have always had the benefit of diversity of opinion and expression before we take some important calls.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Pretty
  • Opinion

• The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive, and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble, they usually call their lawyer friends who handle criminal cases, and if they don't know any, they call their business lawyers, who then refer them to lawyer friends of theirs.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Reality

• Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

  

  Mary Karr
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Poetry

• Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Pay
  • Market
  • Printing

• Imagine if organized religion organized billions of people and trillions of dollars to tackle the challenges that our economic and political systems are afraid or unwilling to tackle—a planet ravaged by unsustainable human behavior and an out-of-control consumptive economy, the growing gap between the rich minority and the poor majority, and the proliferation of weapons of all kinds—including weapons of mass destruction. “Wow,” people frequently say when I propose these possibilities. “If they did that, I might become religious again.” Some quickly add, “But I won’t hold my breath. It’ll never happen.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • People
  • Religion
  • Economic

• I've truly tried to be apolitical.

  

  David Petraeus

• The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.

  

  Blake Bailey
  • People
  • America
  • Moral