Francis Bacon Quotes
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.
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Every debate in Washington is about how much to increase spending - a little or a lot.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
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Let's just say, if I weren't a model, I'd be a walking collage. I see my body as a blank canvas that's aching to be decorated; I find it all very fascinating.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year period where people start asking about it, and it doesn't seem real until it happens.
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I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.
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I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
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I think people thought I was crazy for leaving Mexico when I had any project I wanted falling at my feet. But I risked everything to come to Los Angeles, where no one knew who I was, and start all over again. It was a very hard step to take. However, it was the moment I thought it was right to take a risk in my career.
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I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly, we have wonderful Irish writers, and we have quite a number of Irish women directors. But there could be more, and there should be more.
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I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
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I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.
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To me, makeup is fashion and vice versa. What I dress and what I wear always needs to work with my makeup, which is usually the same anyway.
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After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.
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It puts people who are into this psychedelic thing in an entirely different stance from all other spiritual seekers, because all other spiritual seekers are furiously seeking. Psychedelic people are holding it back with all their power, because they are in the presence of the mystery. And then the trick is to get a spigot on it so that it can be turned on and off rather than coming at you like a tidal wave a mile high and twenty miles wide.
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The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.
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What a childhood I had. My parents sent me to a child psychiatrist. The kid didn't help me at all.
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Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
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Ne mireris, si vulgus verius loquatur quam honoratiores; quia etiam tutius loquitur.
