Francis Bacon Quotes
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
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Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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I'm handsome, no ands, buts or ifs.
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I went off. They were unforced turnovers, too.
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I realized I'm not the kind of person who wants to go with the flow and fit in. I'm an agitator, I'm opinionated, I'm a libertine and leader.
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What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.
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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
