Black Francis Quotes
I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.
Quotes to Explore
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
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Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable.
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People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.
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The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I speak the language of television.
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.
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In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
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I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.
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If the books are selling, the money will follow.
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
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'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.
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Having a movie that lasts and makes your image imprinted into the history of cinema, it's very positive.
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The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation.
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When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
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The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared.
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I initially felt shy about doing painting because I wasn't a professional painter. I almost felt like I didn't deserve to paint. But I have gradually adopted a different kind of attitude about this.
