Francis Bacon Quotes
The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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Breitbart media is named after the same gentleman who basically framed Shirley Sherrod during the Obama administration.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.
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I view Bitcoin as the more democratic version of money and value transfer because no one controls it... I expect the Internet to be around longer than any nation-state, so a nation-state-backed currency is actually less safe than an Internet currency in my mind.
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I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.
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I always wanted to be a leading man!
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The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
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The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.
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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
