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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We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
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Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.
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Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.
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Probably I have more phobias, fear and eccentricities than I would care to admit. I don't think I'm in danger of losing my mind, but I do often question my own behavior. I have a very bad temper, and it's not always healthy for me and for others. I make my way in the world more difficult, and I could do with a little more yoga.
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While playing complex characters you're staying in the same place but you're departing with your mind and soul and educating yourself until you can really understand such huge worlds. Those are the roles that keep loyal to the authenticity of what people are, and not caricatures. It's something that requires me to prepare for three, four months. I love the process of it, rather than, "Okay, I'm ready, I'm set with the wardrobe that somebody else chose for me."
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
