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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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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I have a great foundation, a great training foundation. But it took me a long time to let the training go.
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When I was a young boy, growing up in Durham, North Carolina, the women in my family were truly passionate about their clothes; nothing was more beautiful to me than women dressing with the utmost, meticulous attention to accessories, shoes, handbags, hats, coats, dresses and gloves to attend Sunday church services.
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When I was a child, I got an opportunity to see all the big players in a cricket match. I was a ball boy outside the boundary line. I picked the ball and waited a bit for Sachin Tendulkar to come near me to give it to him. The sense of being in the same space was special. While thousands were watching, I was close to Sachin.
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It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.
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I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.
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You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.
