Philip James Bailey Quotes
The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
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I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.
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While President Obama may not have ordered any surveillance of Trump or his advisors, the real question is whether he or Attorney General Loretta Lynch were aware of or approved of any surveillance of Trump and his staff during the campaign.
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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.
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I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.
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The reality is different. They are so matured as far as democracy is concerned, they rejected the color TV promised by Congress. They rejected the color TV, and they accepted a person who says that I'll serve the notice to tax evaders. And this is the strength of the democracy.
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The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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Look what they did to MaCauley Culkin. The poor child. I know because I've been there. But I could say after living my life, truth will always win out. And no one can take my character away from me anymore.
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The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.
