Francis Bacon Quotes
If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.
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I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.
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Due to my hectic work schedule, I hardly have enough sleep, and my skin tends to look dull. Facial masks are my savior, as it helps to brighten and hydrate my skin.
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Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
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The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
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If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.
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In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.
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I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.
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Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.
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It's a new world, Arcane...It's full of shopping malls...and striplights and software. The dark corners are being pushed back...a little more every day.We're things of the shadow, you and I...And there isn't as much shadow...as there used to be..
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Have a strong mind and a soft heart.
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While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.
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I'm not a booky actor, I don't go away and do loads of reading up on a part, generally. I'm more interested in what the people we're portraying do physically, and looking at their sentence construction.
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Forever is composed of nows.
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To be an artist is to doubt yourself and try harder.
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If I get hit by a bus tomorrow, my patients will not even be postponed. Another surgeon would step in and take over. The reason to do research and writing is that it at least makes me feel not entirely replaceable. If I didn't write, I don't know if I would do surgery.
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I've never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish?
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Time well employed is Satan's deadliest foe; it leaves no opening for the lurking fiend.
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The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
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I think throughout your whole career a player can improve.
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I've spent so long on some paintings that I no longer know what to think of them, and I am definitely getting harder to please; nothing satisfies me.
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Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.
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If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.
