Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quotes
While illness keeps me always aware of my mortality, I realize that what matters most is not that I survive, nor even that my species survives, but that life itself continues to evolve.
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Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.
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Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
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When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health insurance premiums.
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I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.
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I just want to have fun.
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The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.
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I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.
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Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
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I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.
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I know that my Republican colleagues are as ashamed as I am that the United States is forced to borrow over $1 trillion from foreign nations to pay for our national priorities like reconstruction of the gulf coast and the war in Iraq.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.
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Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.
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The thing is, I think as a director or a writer or whatever, you have to have a vision. And you have to be maybe sometimes too early, somewhere.
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He Deng Xiaoping said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved.
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On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punch line in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.
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I don't know if everybody does, but I have a really hard time listening to myself on recordings, unless we've spent weeks and weeks and weeks listening and mixing.
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While illness keeps me always aware of my mortality, I realize that what matters most is not that I survive, nor even that my species survives, but that life itself continues to evolve.
