Francis Bacon Quotes
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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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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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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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What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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Remember that the fans want to hear inside stuff about the series; they don't want to hear gripes and grouses about your personal life. What they really want to hear is how the series gets made, and how you interact with your fellow cast members.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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The people I look up to the most - politicians, actors, artists - are the people who manage to do a high-powered job while staying themselves. They aren't afraid to be nice.
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I think if people have more of an understanding of what I'm doing, then they'll appreciate it and get into it more.
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.
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Maybe the 'Million Little Pieces' of the world are so popular because no one ever writes memoirs about PTA chairwomen; what memoirists do, and often get in trouble for, is bring interesting lives to light.
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Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
