Francis Bacon Quotes
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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When I was about 2 years old, I found a bee that had been stepped on on the foot path, and so I picked it up to rescue it, and it stung me on the hand. From that day forward, I've been terrified of bees.
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I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.
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Being on the road is kind of lonely.
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Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.
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Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
