Francis Bacon Quotes
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.
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You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
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I think Beyonce always looks great.
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I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.
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Film festivals are usually unpleasant experiences on some level. The lines are ridiculous, the crowds are ridiculous, or the schedules are impossibly arranged: 'You say that there's a film you really want to see? Try the 8 A.M. show! Oh, it's too bad you didn't get to bed until 2 A.M. the night before.'
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I've asked myself what is the worst thing that can happen if I take this decision and go along with it. Very often, I find that the worst thing that can happen is something that I can live with. And if that's the case, I will do it.
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I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.
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Youth is the only thing worth having.
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Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.
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I'm no stranger to weight issues. I've had cellulite since I was about nine years old. I have enjoyed the uber support of Spanx many times.
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Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.
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The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page and overshoot the margin. There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.
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What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.
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A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.
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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.
