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 need not regard what good a friend has done us, but only his desire to do us good.
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You assume we are all sexually stable; while on the other hand, as I have become acquainted with people, I find that they are all perverted sinners, one way or another, that the whole society is corrupt and rotten and repressed and unconscious that it exhibits its repression in various forms of social sadism.
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The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as 'fiction' and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called 'nonfiction' strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.
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I’ve been lucky, so lucky, working with ... Rachel (McAdams) on The Notebook. A big draw for me, when I do a film, is who am I going to be opposite, because there’s only so much I can do on my own.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
