Kevin Bacon Quotes

If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it.

Kevin Bacon

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• I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Future
  • Song
  • Past

• My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Therapy

• When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Things
  • Short
  • University

• Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Friendship
  • Two
  • Pity

• I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Way
  • Always
  • Guess

• The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Work
  • Model
  • Anymore

• I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • School
  • Business

• It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Pretty
  • Baby
  • Process

• Gandalf saves the world and saves the soul of the world, really.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • World
  • Soul
  • Really

• I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Trying
  • Idea
  • Someone

• I always pan-fry sprouts - it retains texture and enhances flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Always
  • Texture
  • Enhances

• I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Trying
  • Without
  • Well

• Habet aliquid ex iniquo omne magnum exemplum, quod contra singulos, utilitate publica rependitus.

  

  Tacitus

• I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Reading
  • College
  • Library

• Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?

  

  Larry Wall
  • Running

• That's what makes a good show. It doesn't target one group. It tells a story everyone gets.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Good

• When I sing songs, I love to put emotion into it. I want people to feel what I feel and just disappear for a moment.

  

  Danny Gokey
  • People

• One woman told me that every time she wears Lanvin, men fall in love with her. Another told me she wore Lanvin to face her husband's lawyer because she felt protected. If I can make men fall in love with women and if I can protect women, I think I can die peacefully.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• It's all rot that they put in the war-news about the good humour of the troops, how they are arranging dances almost before they are out of the front-line. We don't act like that because we are in a good humour: we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • War
  • Troops
  • Good Humour

• She expressed herself in sentences that were well constructed, and without error, even though she had stopped going to school, but – further – she left no trace of effort, you weren’t aware of the artifice of the written word. I read and I saw her, heard her. The voice set in the writing overwhelmed me, enthralled me even more than when we talked face to face; it was completely cleansed of the dross of speech, the confusion of the oral.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Voice
  • Word
  • Speech

• There's a writing adage that says, 'Write yourself into a corner.' My brother and I have always loved that adage.

  

  Anthony Russo
  • Writing
  • Brother

• In reporting, you will often be humbled by the courage others have in telling and trusting you with their tale, no two alike.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • Courage

• To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

  

  Amity Gaige

• If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it.

  

  Kevin Bacon