Francis Bacon Quotes
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.
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I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill.
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Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
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There are great songs out there, and if I love them, and I know them, I'm going to sing them just because that's what songs are for.
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I've been in LA for 5 years now, and it's been very freeing creatively.
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Well, I think of the folks who are the climate deniers as the flat Earthers and the people who say the moon landings never happened.
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When you're filming, you work 19-hour days, and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your husband.
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I think it would be best for us to start Mark.
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The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.
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When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.
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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring by 'accident' in the midst of prosperity would not suffice for it. It is, in fact, essentially a tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death.
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When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.
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I think conveying the emotion of the collective "we" is pretty incredible. Especially in tumultuous times like we are in now.
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We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded human child because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others.
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It's born of sheer laziness. My signature dishes are salads, hamburgers and popcorn. That's not the kind of stuff that gets you an entry in the distinguished book of culinary records. Being known for great soufflé is one thing but a good hamburger? What would they say? "Yeah, he really knew how to put the cheese on."
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You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?
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That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.
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The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.
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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
