Francis Bacon Quotes
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Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
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There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.
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Internal security implies also an external dimension, a defence capacity.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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I don't take story input from fans.
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Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic, and presentation of the results of this investigation in a carefully organized and documented paper of some length.
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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One time a French reporter asked me how I could do a cross so easily. I said, "You just lower your body down until your arms are straight out to the sides, then you stop."
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It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.
