Francis Bacon Quotes
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
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I got my Equity card right out of NYU grad school in 2000, doing 'The Great White Hope' at Arena Stage. I played Jack Jefferson. It was an amazing part to walk into, to carry that responsibility for that amount of time. The challenges and the breadth of that role were pretty amazing.
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I've been an actress for years, and I've worked with one female director. Statistically it's less than 7% or 12% - I mean, it's low, not representative. So, hopefully, more women will be given opportunities to direct, or create opportunities to direct themselves.
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Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think.
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I think things will come once I get the respect that I deserve. Keeping my belt for a long time... Things will happen like normal. I can't force those things.
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What's not to love about a crazy cat lady? You have to be very giving to be a crazy cat lady.
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Let's treat this country first and foremost.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
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Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
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I need to lose some weight. I'm getting really fat. But I'm getting older, and I just can't stop eating wonderful food. Rich, wonderful food.
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You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.
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I'm not a tyrant, but I can't afford to be merciful. Whatever it is necessary to do, I will do it.
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Indeed, there is no evidence to suggest innate morality. It is therefore important to create the conditions under which the expansion of our moral communities may become more likely.
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From forty till fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.
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If you want to get to know a character, learn about their interests, goals or desires, their butt is probably not going to give you that information.
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I'm a perfectionist. I like to get it right. I like to get it good. And you know, writing songs is not - it's not the kind of thing that you can count on every day. You never know what's going to come or if it's going to come. So you - you know, it's an uncertain kind of a thing.
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That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century.
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The Special Ops community has always been about mental toughness.
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One of the few things the Air Force did admit to me existed out there presently without admitting that it was Area 51 is this drone called the 'Beast of Kandahar' which does not fire missiles, unlike the Predator and the Reaper, but just conducts surveillance.
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Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.
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My mom, she sometimes resided in the space between irony and sincerity.
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Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
