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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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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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 got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
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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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Unions continue to be important for raising the standard of living for working Americans, whether or not they happen to be in a union.
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The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.
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The girls in my books are out solving their own problems.
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It's really important to be disruptive and do things that actually are kind of a little scary and bold.
