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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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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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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If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want my readers to feel that fear as they turn the page.
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Sometimes you'll laugh. Sometimes you'll cry. Life never tells us, the when's or why's. When you've got friends, to wish you well. You'll find your point when. You will exhale.
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If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.
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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
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Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight.
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There were days when Keanu was looking a little green from the amount of cigarettes we were having him smoke.
