Christopher Bailey (Christopher Paul Bailey) Quotes

It's brilliant to get recognition. The CFDA was magic because it's such a big award in our industry. There's nothing more flattering than being honored by your peers.

Christopher Bailey

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• Recognition
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• Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Trying

• The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • America
  • Society
  • Free

• I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Brilliant

• I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Love
  • Kind
  • Magic

• Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Everything
  • Brilliant
  • Coen

• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Magic

• I love the fact that little kids think I'm a witch. A mum might come over and say 'I'm sorry to disturb you, but my daughter thinks you're in 'Harry Potter.' I'll say 'That's cool' and take the kid aside and say, 'I'm a witch. If you don't listen to your mum, I'm going to haunt you!' It's brilliant. I can scare kids into doing their homework.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Kids
  • Cool
  • Listen

• I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Remember

• When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Beginning
  • Magic
  • Inspired

• I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic. Every time I've followed my gut it's been better than when I've tried to do what I was supposed to do.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• I think 'Girls' is pretty brilliant.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Brilliant

• Michael Hogan is an absolutely brilliant actor, so anytime I get to work with someone of that caliber, I get excited.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Brilliant

• We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• I go forth to seek - To seek and claim the lovely magic garden Where grasses softly sigh and Muses speak.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Magic
  • Garden

• It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Up
  • Art
  • Magic

• I learned early on the magic of life is having a vision, having faith, and then going for it.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Vision

• I love magic. Like, 'pull a scarf out of your fake thumb' magic. I have a legit bag of 'Magic Stuff' in my garage.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Magic
  • Fake

• I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

  

  David Liss
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

  Jenny Nimmo
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.

  

  Joan Miro
  • Music
  • Silence

• Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings you joy.

  

  Eloisa James
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Joy

• In the government, we have a very important responsibility to protect the rights of our pastors and religious leaders. They have the freedom to speak out about what they believe, without fear of repercussions from their very own government.

  

  Steve Daines
  • Government
  • Responsibility
  • Religious

• It's brilliant to get recognition. The CFDA was magic because it's such a big award in our industry. There's nothing more flattering than being honored by your peers.

  

  Christopher Bailey
  • Magic
  • Brilliant
  • Recognition