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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Our economy works really well without an income or a sales tax.
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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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I'm into the old school. I listen to rock, soft rock, jazz, old school R&B.
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Comedy is tragedy - plus time.
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To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.
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I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.
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You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.
