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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.
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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.
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It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.
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Gandalf saves the world and saves the soul of the world, really.
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I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
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I always pan-fry sprouts - it retains texture and enhances flavour.
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I'm a perfectionist. I won't do a thing without trying to do it well.
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Habet aliquid ex iniquo omne magnum exemplum, quod contra singulos, utilitate publica rependitus.
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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.
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Are you perchance running on a 64-bit machine?
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That's what makes a good show. It doesn't target one group. It tells a story everyone gets.
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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.
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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.
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I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.
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You don't have to you change yourself for somebody else to like you.
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When I'm onstage and the singer sings, "I think about childhood friends and the dreams we had" and "on board I'm the captain, so climb aboard and we'll search for tomorrow forever more."My head is down because I'm trying to keep the beat. I'll turn and look at the audience and my eyes will scan the entire space. This is a transcendent moment. I can't explain it. It has a lot of meaning to me.
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Word of mouth and the Internet are the only press we have left.
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The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.
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If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.
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If I'm in a situation where someone doesn't recognize me and treats me like everyone else, I'm not used to it.
