Philip James Bailey Quotes
The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.
Quotes to Explore
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.
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'We would make our heroes shallow,' he answered, the words very slow and almost sad. 'We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.'
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He's not doing anything he shouldn't be doing, right?" "Like what?" "Like hitting on you." "Ew. No, of course not. He doesn't see me that way." Michael shook his head and went back to his coffee. "What? You think he does?" "Sometimes he looks at you a little... oddly, that's all. Maybe you're right. Maybe he just wants you for your blood." "Again, Ew! What's with you this morning?" "Not enough coffee.
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Dog is God spelled backward.
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Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.
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The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.
