Francis Bacon Quotes
Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.
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I'm easily entertained.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I'm looking forward to my career and showing all of my range as an actress, and I'm looking at other mediums, too. I'm a theater actress first. And I cannot wait to return to the stage.
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I don't feel that people should glom onto other people. I feel that relationships should be nice and easy and convenient and happy and not strictured with legality or jealousy.
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I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
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I think it's really important for people to hear what our men and women in the military have to say.
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Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular.
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Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.
