Francis Bacon Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Walter Benjamin -
I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
Harmony Korine -
I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
Kaki King -
There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America.
Harold Pinter -
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W. Somerset Maugham -
People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
Carl Paladino
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
Barry Diller -
When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.
Illeana Douglas -
I think every woman in their life wants to give a good face smack.
Mallory Jansen -
My mom grew up with horses, and when I turned 14, 15, she's like, 'Do you want to take a riding lesson?' I thought, 'Oh, gross, dirty.' She was like, 'Okay.' And then I did, and now I'm the one cleaning those damn stalls out. You can't get me away from the barn now. It shocks even me.
Kaley Cuoco -
When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.
Adam Grant -
I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home.
Daisy Ridley
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I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.
Foster Friess -
My parents are OK with me wearing a small heel, up to 1.5 inches high. Heels give me height when I wear such long dresses. For me, they complete the outfit.
Jackie Evancho -
When I see young people interested in music. I always look out for that passion in their eyes. You never know where that might lead.
Aaron Diehl -
If you skate with an Olympic level skater, they make you so much better because you're skating behind them, and you're trying to imitate their stride and their stance. It's like having the world's greatest training wheels.
D. B. Sweeney -
I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.
Cara Delevingne -
Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. ... The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks and frauds. It has been so since the earliest days, and it will probably remain so until the end of time.
H. L. Mencken
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There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers.
Joachim Frank -
...the bathroom which Crabbe visited showed signs that Moneypenny now regarded even a lavatory as supererogatory.
Anthony Burgess -
What isn't tried won't work.
Claude Maxwell MacDonald -
One of the things I find extremely challenging about the continent of Africa is that when the immediate needs and the social needs of people are not met, that kills dreams, and it's all about survival.
Djimon Hounsou -
In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say 'See!' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing; or reply 'Here!' to a body's cry of 'Where?' till the hide-and-seek has become an irksome outworn game.
Thomas Hardy -
Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
Francis Bacon