Christopher Bailey (Christopher Paul Bailey) Quotes
It's really important to be disruptive and do things that actually are kind of a little scary and bold.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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Politics is a good thing!
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces.
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It's sweet that I don't have to do my laundry.
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When I was younger, I got bullied for wearing my hijab.
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Once you're playing someone, you shouldn't be judging them in any way. That's what being an actor is - it's having empathy for people that are different from yourself. Once you've committed to that person, your responsibility is to tell that story.
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Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.
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I was a theater geek, and I was a surly cheerleader, and that's really kind of a contradiction.
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I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be. At any rate I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.
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If actors could actually make a living doing theater, that would be my first choice. Sitcoms are the closest thing to being onstage in front of an audience.
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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
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The sad side of a woman's life. We do as we like and we never realise what damage it is leading to.
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You can't say you love your country and hate your government.
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There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over. I've always tried to preach that consistency and continuity are very, very important. So if I know the baseball people, and I know they're competent and could do the job, I don't see any reason to replace them.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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It's really important to be disruptive and do things that actually are kind of a little scary and bold.
