Blake Bailey Quotes
With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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I no longer limit myself.
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There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.
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Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.
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I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.
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The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
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And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.
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Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.
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We don't sign an artist to fill a void, ever. I'll never find a Taylor Swift. You can't find a new Madonna, you cannot find a Prince, a Bob Marley, a John Lennon. You won't find another Kanye West. We simply deal with people as they walk in, and we say we either love them or we don't.
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When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system.
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On Friday, June 12, 1992, 110 heads of state gathered at Riocentro. They were indistinguishable in dress and deportment. Where was biodiversity when we needed it?
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As I approach my 90th birthday, my friends are asking how it feels like, to have completed 90 orbits around the Sun. Well, I actually don't feel a day older than 89!
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Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.
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[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.
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I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.
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My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
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With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.
