Francis Bacon Quotes
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I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
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No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
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I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
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Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.
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When they finally put you in the ground, I'll stand on your grave and tramp the dirt down.
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The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative... Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International.
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Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.
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Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.
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Half of science is putting forth the right questions.
