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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No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or 'real' art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.
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Your creativity before it gets formed into words and songs is the actual substance. No one else can see it, right? Unless you give it the shape of a song or a painting or whatever.
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Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.
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Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil … a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons … never to truth.
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All new news is old news happening to new people.
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Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had.
