Pearl Bailey Quotes
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.
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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
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There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
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It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.
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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
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I think it's our job to create a culture and an environment where a gay player knows he is safe and welcome. If and when that happens, believe me - that person will have the full support of the commissioner's office.
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My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn't end up in her position.
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.
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The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.
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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
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The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions.
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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There he lieth, tossing in the guilt of his lewdness, the primal lecher, neglectful of his duties to a fair wife but all too ready to plunge his sizzling steel into the slaking black mud of a base Indian.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.
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For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden.
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You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.