Francis Bacon Quotes
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
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I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
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Whatever it takes to win.
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I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.
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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
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It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.
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I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.
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As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.
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I feel like I'm 100 years old. I can't tell you what I did today. I can't tell you what I did for seven years. I can't tell you. It happens so seamlessly - I'm just floating along and seven years go by.
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I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.
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I do have impossibly high standards.
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I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.
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People who see an unhappy, sulky pop star assume that she's an ungrateful, self-absorbed little ninny. But nobody knows what's really going on. I need to eat, I need to sleep, and sometimes those things weren't considered. It was like, "When do you think I'll have time to go to the bathroom?" That wasn't on the schedule.
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During my seven years in office, I was in love with seventeen million French women... I know this declaration will inspire irony and that English language readers will find it very French.
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I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that in my hands I held an object whose simple appearance belied its profound power. All true readers have a book, a moment, like the one I describe, and when Mum offered me that much-read library copy mine was upon me.
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People want to see realism in action now. People want the actors to perform than the computers performing. Though I have done both, I enjoy the realism of action more.
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
