Francis Bacon Quotes
The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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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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The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.
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I always separated sports and my personal life.
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There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
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I love sparkly eyes for the holidays, especially New Year's Eve.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
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You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.
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You're not sick you're just in love.
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
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The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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I try to construct some kind of backstory for my character so that I have an idea of the life of that character - not just from the moment when the scene starts, but from before.
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
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The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.
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Death frames the high wire. But I don't see myself as taking risks. I do all of the preparations that a non-death seeker would do.
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The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.
