Philip James Bailey Quotes
It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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Interior design is a business of trust.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
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All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.
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When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
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There is an inalienable law. Whenever a character on screen pities himself, the audience stops pitying him. They will cry so long as the character doesn't.
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Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.
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We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.
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Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
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It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.
