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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The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.
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Return to a simpler life, and you will see that behind the expensive cars, the fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy houses and the thick layers of make-up life has real meaning. Behind all the lies there is a deep well of wisdom that we can all drink from, and grow wiser, healthier and happier.
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When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.
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A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.
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What you call freedom is still nothing but choosing how to steer straight into the heart of what chooses you.
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
