Philip James Bailey Quotes
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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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I'm a believer in paying your dues.
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I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
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Forgotten is forgiven.
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I cut up loads. I always want everything shorter, shorter, shorter.
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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.
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John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
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I had Tommy John my first year in pro ball. Going through that rehab process, I think that's what really helped me become a better pitcher, because I was kind of new to it, and I think it helped me learn how to repeat my delivery. It was a crazy journey.
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I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
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What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. ... Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting through history on her secret tasks.
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We were created to look at one another, weren't we.
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In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body - it is heritage.
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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
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The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.
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I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
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Doubt is the shadow of truth.
