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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Everything I chose, I had already played in concert. For the competition, I wanted to pick pieces I know that people like.
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The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?'
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No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist.
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The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised.
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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
