Christopher Bailey (Christopher Paul Bailey) Quotes
My dad is a carpenter, a joiner, and I used to watch him make things. So I always imagined that I'd do something where I made things, too. I was really more interested in architecture growing up because I would work with my dad on houses.
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My dream as an actor growing up was always to challenge myself to different genres, different roles, and it's actually rare that an actor's given that opportunity to do that.
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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
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I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
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I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.
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Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
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I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.
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My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.
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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
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Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
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'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.
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Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me - the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.
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It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.
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Obama White House rescued the economy from the worst recession.
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Its like Dr. Doolittle in this fucking house here.
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I've played a prostitute now three times. I don't know how it's come about that way. It's just a matter of me growing up.
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I used to be a party monster, very into Acid House, which I saw as my weekend reward for working hard all week.
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What happened with reggaeton is that many artists kept recycling the same sound. But there are a lot of reggaeton artists that are still in their prime - like Daddy Yankee - because they've chosen to continue growing, to offer people more than just reggaeton. That's where I learned to always be able to try something new and not be afraid.
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Honestly, if the public still wants to hear me in some works, I have to go down a half step.
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Get the better of yourself - this is the best kind of victory.
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I've played a mother before, but it's always been a very young child, which is closer to what I can imagine my own life looking like.
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I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.
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My dad is a carpenter, a joiner, and I used to watch him make things. So I always imagined that I'd do something where I made things, too. I was really more interested in architecture growing up because I would work with my dad on houses.
