Blake Bailey Quotes
With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.
Blake Bailey
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The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.
Ed Case
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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.
Waylon Jennings
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Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.
Larry Gelbart
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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.
L.A. Reid
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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.
Nancy Pelosi
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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?
P. J. O'Rourke
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Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
George Berkeley
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Wine ... changing even as we taste it, delivers a message with meaning only in our response. If we are in the right key when we receive it, our eyes will shine and we shall radiate pleasure.
Gerald Asher
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I thought I'd be edgy and dye my hair red. And I dyed my hair, like, Jessica Rabbit red. It kind of allowed me to have this whole new confidence and this whole new swagger and this whole new sense of self. It kind of brought out the inner rock star in me. I had never dyed my hair like that, and no one forgot me after that.
Candice Accola
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
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That race is still part of what Barack Obama is riding on. Except that, too, is diminishing.
Nat Hentoff
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With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.
Blake Bailey
