Bailey Whitfield Diffie (Whitfield Diffie) Quotes
If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I think you take a long step toward making a transition from a free society to a totalitarian society.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
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If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
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I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.
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I try not to bring my phone to the gym - it's too tempting to play with it.
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I'm very positive - music-wise, production-wise and life-wise.
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I have no issues in talking about my personal life, but I feel it takes away from my career and my characters, especially when a film is about to release.
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That's what makes me keep playing every day is the fact that I'm not quite there, you know. There's always more for me to be able to do.
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I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.
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If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I think you take a long step toward making a transition from a free society to a totalitarian society.
