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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In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
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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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I'm very physical. When I'm writing, I'm playing all the parts; I'm saying the lines out loud, and if I get excited about something - which doesn't happen very often when I'm writing, but it's the greatest feeling when it does - I'll be out of the chair and walking around, and if I'm at home, I'll find myself two blocks from my house.
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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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Of course I was in love with my father as a child. He was Daddy, and our house came alive in a special way whenever he walked through the door. He'd romp and play with us; my sisters and I would literally squeal with excitement when Daddy came home.
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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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Civilization is so hard on the body that some have called it a disease, despite the arts that keep puny bodies alive to a greater average age, and our greater protection from contagious and germ diseases.
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We all have the ability to be dangerous and do things which are morally wrong.
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I play guys who are willing to go really far. If the dung really hits the fan, I don't know if I could walk the talk. But anyone who isn't willing to die for his convictions isn't worth living. My characters, no matter how demented they are, they have their convictions.
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The attitude of giving a full commitment to the partnership will usually result in getting the same commitment in return.
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He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
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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.
