Bill Bailey (Mark Robert Bailey) Quotes
The day after tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life - that way you've always got a couple of days in hand.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down.
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What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.
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My life is not perfect.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
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The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.
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I don't treasure things much - just people. And pets.
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Everybody has problems.
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Going to the gym wouldn't be on my list of favorite things to do.
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People of similar political persuasions tend to flock together.
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Everybody knows who Gandhi is. Who knows Jesse Stone?
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The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
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The day after tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life - that way you've always got a couple of days in hand.
