Xenobia Bailey Quotes
You can do a million different funks from a million different people and you'll never get anything exactly alike - that's what's so beautiful about it.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
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You don't want to become guilty of plagiarism by letting someone else's words get inadvertently mixed in with your own. If you do feel the need to paste in a block of research while you're writing, be sure to highlight the copied text in a different color so you can go back and remove or rewrite it entirely later.
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I'm an independent thinker and independent leader. I have been my whole life.
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I don't think there is such a thing as a German movie star. There are respected actors, but we are not publicized like TV people.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.
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You can do a million different funks from a million different people and you'll never get anything exactly alike - that's what's so beautiful about it.
