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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The least we desire from the institutions of the free world, and especially the US and the countries of the European Union, is that they appreciate our struggle for freedom. We want them to discharge their responsibilities towards vulnerable people and support them in the face of the cruelty of rulers who continue to kill.
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You're not a restful individual to be around" Ashaya to Dorian
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Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.
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Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as 'enlightenment.'
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The idea of self-effacement, the idea that you feel so powerless that the only tiny morsel of power you have is over your own ability to deny yourself food - that to me is a very profound and sad methodology and indicator of how powerless a lot of people feel in this world. That they will turn that onto themselves until they are physically smaller. I think it's affected my worldview a lot - just being sensitive and empathetic towards the ways people want to be small. I don't wish smallness for anyone.
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You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.
