Francis Bacon Quotes
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Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.
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I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.
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When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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I was a very, very good congressman.
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I grew up riding horses since I was eight. I rode English style and competed every weekend. I had two horses, Scout and Camille, and they were my babies. It taught me a lot about responsibility and commitment. I hope horses will always be in my life.
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For those of us imprisoned in Poland, the Prague Spring was a harbinger of hope.
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I always take off my makeup. My mother always told me to do this, and I never go to bed without doing it. I use a good moisturizer and Mario Badescu face wash.
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I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules.
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It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
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I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.
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I'm not very good at going to parties and looking like I'm having fun.
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I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.
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My role 14 years ago in Richard III - that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it - they have all the fun!
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Cartography and geographic thinking are cool.
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I try not to take much time off for lunch, so I usually end up with a tossed salad from the local deli.
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The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last for ever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year - the days when summer is changing into autumn - the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
