H. C. Bailey Quotes
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.
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I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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Value is what you get.
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The drills we do, where you're telling kids to memorize things, don't actually work. What works is engaging them and letting them do things and discover things.
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You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.
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One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'
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Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back.
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In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
