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.
K. Flay -
It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
W. Somerset Maugham -
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.
Pat Barker -
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.
Nancy A. Collins -
Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
Yakov Smirnoff -
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.
Candace Camp
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.
Wayne Rogers -
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
J. Paul Getty -
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.
Gary Bettman -
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.
Gabriel Luna -
To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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A week is a long time in politics.
Harold Wilson -
Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.
Uwe Boll -
The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.
F. Sionil Jose -
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
D. H. Lawrence -
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.
Ike Skelton -
Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
Walter Raleigh
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I'm naturally quite conformist, really. If I go to a country and they say, "You've got to drive on the right," I'm not going to drive on the left to show that I'm different. I'm able to stick to the law.
Robert Wyatt -
I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
Fleur East -
Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
Ira Glass -
As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.
Pearl Bailey