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Blake Bailey Quotes

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and that's very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

Blake Bailey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 1, 1963

Topics

Myself City Class Same Up Middle

My long, blonde hair has been my trademark ever since I started modelling in the Seventies, when I was scouted sunbathing in St Tropez.

Jerry Hall

Hair Blonde Long Seventies Started

Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

Maya Angelou

Bitterness Cancer Anything Object

Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the observer of your mind, not its victim.

Matt Haig

Mind Thoughts You Understand Reason

People that know me know that I cook. I cook every night.

Amy Sedaris

People Me Night Know Cook Every

My goal is to get leadership to bring more conservative policies to the floor; it's not the other way around to get conservatives to vote for something they don't like. It's to get a more conservative product, and we've actually delivered on a number of occasions there.

Steve Scalise

Leadership Goal Vote Way More Bring

Hip-hop is a voice for voiceless poor people.

Russell Simmons

People Voice Hip-Hop Poor Voiceless

While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.

Michele Bachmann

I Am Political Sexism Exist Cite Am

I'd love to go back to Greek times and see the birth of theater and performing, in that time. It would be so extraordinary to see the need that theater came out of, in the first place. I think we could probably all learn a bit from that.

Michael Sheen

Love Time Think Learn Back Place

Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.

Louis D. Brandeis

Initiative Never Judgement Substitute

Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.

Juan Williams

Push You Train Sometimes Understand

From a storytelling perspective, perfection is death.

Brian Azzarello

Perspective Death Perfection

Yes, I play this evil, mean character Victoria in 'Baywatch.' It is so much fun. I didn't want my first film in America to be just another role.

Priyanka Chopra

Character Fun Evil America Play Yes