Francis Bacon Quotes
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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I want to write weirder stuff and convince people that it's Top 40.
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All I have are the people.
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If you're a songwriter, you have to do homework. You can exist for a while on the inspiration, but at some point, you have to sit down and have the discipline to write - to finish the poem, as they say.
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90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?
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For centuries, the horrors of war have been sculpted by artists so people would never forget.
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'Friends' started because Rachel left her husband at the altar. This likability factor is just so stupid to me. It's the same thing as 'wish-fulfillment,' which is a big word you hear in a lot of Hollywood rooms. It basically means that people want to see other people living a life they can't lead, and I don't buy that. I think that's not true.
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
