Francis Lawrence Quotes
There were days when Keanu was looking a little green from the amount of cigarettes we were having him smoke.
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I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.
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It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
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I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'
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The kind of artist I would like to be is definitely versatile. I don't like being boxed in or put into a genre, so to speak.
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I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords.
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One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.
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I'm married, I have a couple kids, I've traveled a lot, I've done book tours a lot, I'm happy to stay home and take my kids to school and come to the office.
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Onstage, I was never the ingenue.
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Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.
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'Mi Gente' is a song that embodies a special moment in music - a new sound of a Latino culture on the rise and being embraced globally.
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No bad man can be a good poet.
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I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me.
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
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I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.
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The best music is the music which brings out something of you that you didn't know was there before, or you did know was there but had avoided.
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My sisters and my mum taught me how to be a woman: the way they carry themselves, the way they talk to people, the way they know how to put their foot down. They're not having any nonsense from no one. I can see traces of that in me.
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In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.
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Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for.
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I have had many anxieties for our commonwealth, principally occasioned by the depreciation of our money.
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Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once were. The wheels of the steamship turned as swiftly as they do now, but as silent and unsubstantial as the motions of the inventor's thought; and in the noiseless loom of his meditation were woven the sinews of the printing-press, whose thunder shakes the world.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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I grew up in a household that was very left wing.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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There were days when Keanu was looking a little green from the amount of cigarettes we were having him smoke.
