Francis Bacon Quotes
If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.
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You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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By the time I got to college, the Cold War was basically over.
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The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
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I know what people say, that water's a lot like air. Do you charge for air? Well, of course not. Well, you shouldn't charge for water. Okay, watch what happens you won't have any water
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I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.
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I'm a big believer in the transformative, exponential power of art, like a reverse pyramid scheme.
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If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.
