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.

Christopher Bailey

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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.

  

  Taylor Lautner
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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.

  

  Tadao Ando
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  • World
  • Believe

• I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • People
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  • House

• If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

  

  Quincy Jones
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• Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

  

  Lance Reddick
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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.

  

  Kate Forsyth
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• I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.

  

  Damon Wayans
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  • Kids
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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.

  

  S. E. Hinton
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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.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
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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.

  

  Laila Robins
  • People
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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.

  

  Barbara Kruger
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  • Space
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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.

  

  L. Frank Baum
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  • Small

• Obama White House rescued the economy from the worst recession.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • House

• 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.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • 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.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
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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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• When I was deciding whether or not to take the job at Celine, I didn't really look at the history of the house. I had other offers to come back, but they weren't right, or they wouldn't let me stay in London, which was non-negotiable.

  

  Phoebe Philo
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• I recalled how a lot of my older siblings would go to a friend's house and borrow records to play and sometimes borrow a turntable because we didn't have a turntable in the house until I was 8, about the same time we had a TV.

  

  Patty Loveless
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• In the many-mansioned house of Alternate History, I occupy a small corner. The trio of what-ifs I chronicled in 'Then Everything Changed' all begin with tiny, highly plausible twists of fate that lead to hugely consequential shifts in history.

  

  Jeff Greenfield
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• The best thing about success was being able to buy my parents a house.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
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  • House
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• The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.

  

  J. Cole
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  • Today
  • Eyes

• In my view, the future of politics is, without a doubt, social liberalism married to economic conservatism. Which means we have to make an economic argument to social liberals, that it's OK to vote for us. But we won't run the economy into the ground at the same time.

  

  Louise Mensch
  • Time
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  • Doubt

• 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.

  

  Christopher Bailey
  • House
  • Growing
  • Architecture