Philip James Bailey Quotes
Any heart turned God ward feels more joy In one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raised By all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
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I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
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Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.
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I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.
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You got to expand the sound to expand your horizon and your fanbase.
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The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.
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There are books all around me... I don't read as much as I used to, but I always have a book or two going.
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The right of an individual to refuse to kill, to torture, or to participate in the preparation for the nuclear destruction of humanity seems to me to be fundamental.
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Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a PROFOUND tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there.
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Any heart turned God ward feels more joy In one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raised By all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
