Francis Bacon Quotes
Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.
Quotes to Explore
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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I don't like allegories.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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I hated the thought of being just a songwriter.
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I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.
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I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.
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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.
