Carlisle Floyd Quotes
The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
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It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?
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As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.
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I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had a lot of success with the one last year, but this year's shoe is going to be a little different, but at the same time it's going to be a little spin-off on last year's shoe.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
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My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me when I was eight dressed as a little senorita.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
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'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.
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When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple.
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It is devastating, losing a parent. I don't really know what the effect is, but I suppose people might call me an ambitious man, and I'd say that an ambitious man is a damaged man.
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The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
