Francis Bacon Quotes
A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
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Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.
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I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
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Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
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I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novels and hiring an editor to tear them apart. I had enough money to do that, and then rewriting and rewriting and rewriting.
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Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.
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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
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The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.
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As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.
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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
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To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.
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I thought writing about somebody current would be a little closer to what I'm used to doing.
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Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.
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There are so many forms of love. Spending time with friends, love stories. I enjoy showing my love by baking a cake for somebody and writing his or her name on it, and seeing his or her reaction. I love to offer flowers, too!
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My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.
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I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.
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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
