Philip James Bailey Quotes
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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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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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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Zef is like dirt, it's like scum. There was no zef movement before we came along.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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Lizz Wright is my favourite singer. Her voice moves me and takes me to another place. She also grows her own food, and that inspires me.
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For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.
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People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!
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We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.
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We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.
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Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if they are married, and indeed, I repeat, if they are formally married as opposed to simply living together.
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Anybody can leap off a building.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it.
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My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.
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'American Graffiti' stayed in my mind, but I don't think to this day I've done a film that captured that same level of melancholy. It was so well done. Talking about it has given me the idea I might try harder to make that melancholy film!
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The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute one delusion for another. It rejects all overt evidence as wicked.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
