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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My shaven head is my way of saying 'I wont take no for an answer,' it is my way of saying 'I believe in my creativity and artistry.'
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You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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I don't know anything about myself. Put it this way, there is no self. I believe that we're a compendium of personalities. We're whoever we meet. We go through the day being who we think we should be and who we think we'd like to be.
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In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion.
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I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together while time stands still. Cozy couples lazily meandered the streets and children trudged sleds and chased snowballs. No one seemed to be in a rush to experience anything other than the glory of the day, with each other, whenever and however it happened.
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In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
