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.
Barton Gellman -
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
Barbra Streisand -
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.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
Paloma Faith -
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.
Lady Gaga -
At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
Cara Delevingne
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
Sam Rayburn -
I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.
Ebon Moss-Bachrach -
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.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
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.
Aaron Ruell -
I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
Ian K. Smith -
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.
Nancy Meyers
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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.'
Karan Mahajan -
The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
Candice Swanepoel -
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.
Mal Peet -
For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
Upamanyu Chatterjee -
I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
Candace Bushnell -
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Octavio Paz
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I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
My challenge is really to say, 'Can you name me a moral action or a statement that has been made by a believer that couldn't have been made by a non-believer?'
Christopher Hitchens -
I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.
Jackie DeShannon -
I founded io9 back in 2008, and I watched it journey from the farthest reaches of space to its current home under this atmosphere bubble on Ceres.
Annalee Newitz -
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Francis Bacon