Francis Bacon Quotes
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Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.
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I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.
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The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
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Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my first record is the cherry on top of a chapter in my life I'll never forget.
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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
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If my wife is cooking a meal at home, which is not often, thankfully, but you know, she's doing (oh, she's good at some things) but if she's cooking, you know, she's dealing with people on the phone, she's talking to the kids, she's painting the ceiling, she's doing open-heart surgery over here; if I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out, the phone's on the hook, if she comes in I get annoyed, I say "Terry, please, I'm trying to fry an egg in here, give me a break.".
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Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
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I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.
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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had.
