Francis Bacon Quotes
I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.Francis Bacon
Quotes to Explore
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
Vincent Cassel -
I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.
Banksy -
The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
Edmund Phelps -
The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
Wayne White -
One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
Ed Gillespie -
I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
Adam McKay
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The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.
C. C. H. Pounder -
The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
Nathan Myhrvold -
I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
Tania Raymonde -
But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
Aaron Stanford -
I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.
Karen Gillan
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
Vanessa Hudgens -
Not every artist is a role model.
Iggy Azalea -
I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
Umberto Eco -
I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
Garry Trudeau -
When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!
Calvin Klein -
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
D. H. Lawrence
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There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
Carlos Fuentes -
It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.
Malala Yousafzai -
I've always felt writing is an art. Publishing is a business. I felt strongly if I was going to write, I would write what I wanted to, and if the 'market' didn't respond, there was nothing I could really do about it.
M. J. Rose -
Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
Barbara Broccoli -
The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
William Godwin -
I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.
Francis Bacon