Philip James Bailey Quotes
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.
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Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
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I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.
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When I auditioned for 'Fargo,' there was something about it that I was hungry for because of how right it felt for me.
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Most of my work is based in Hyderabad, so it makes sense that I own a house here. Another reason I want a home here is because I want to have my own kitchen so that I can cook, since I hate food from hotels.
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It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
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I'm the kind of person who visualizes things before doing them.
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If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. I love that it's like theater too, and the audience, and it's so short, like twenty minutes... It's like a Haiku or something.
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I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that's part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it's self loathing. It's self denial. And you keep that separate.
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Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.
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I almost chose the career of an ethnomusicologist because I was so fascinated by that music. It gives a different feeling of time.
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I didn't ask to be Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke asked to be me.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
