The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
Quote by David Bailey
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The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
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David Bailey Quotes
- I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
- I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.
- In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.
- All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead.
- The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
- A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me.
- The skull is nature's sculpture.
- It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
- I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.
- London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.
- In New York, everyone's desperate for success, desperate for money and desperate to be accepted, but in London they're more laid back about things like that.
Best Quotes
- I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
- The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
- I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
- I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
- When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
- Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
- My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
- When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.
- When there is nothing to talk about don't force yourself to say anything because it may land you in trouble.
- It’s crazy how people say, "I rely on facts," And believe thier television sets.
- Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.