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Blake Bailey Quotes

With literary biographies, you're either shelved with other biographies or next to your subject's fiction.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

You Next Fiction Your Biographies

I don't have a constituency, and I'm not autobiographical in any way. I write these deeply moral books in a country which would prefer irony to anything with a moral tone.

Country Moral Way Write Irony Tone

I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

School High School Year High Being

Resilient people recognize that no matter how bad the circumstances are, their situation could always be worse. They don't allow themselves to exaggerate how terrible their problems are, and they don't run around predicting how much worse things are going to get. Instead, they view failure with an accurate perspective.

Failure Perspective People Problems

My biggest accomplishment was playing 'Lark' on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes.

Shoes Job Step Accomplishment Acting

You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.

You Artist Tell Honest Just Songs

Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out.

People Now Mean First Out Tell

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.

Mikhail Bakunin

Needs His Each According Faculties

Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller.

Character Writing You Page Well

It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate.

People Me Control You Passionate

Beckham? His wife can't sing and his barber can't cut hair.

Wife Hair Barber Cut Sing His

You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in.

Bradley Whitford

Believe Speak You Want Banana Turn

'Dial Star' is about an aspiring actress who finds the cell phone of AnnaLynne McCord and impersonates her.

AnnaLynne McCord

Cell Phone Phone Star Her Actress

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