Sebastian Faulks Quotes
Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and clerks, gardeners and fathers - fathers of small children. A country cannot bear to lose them.
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We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
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I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
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Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?
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A first difficulty of the Arab movement was to say who the Arabs were. Being a manufactured people, their name had been changing in sense slowly year by year. Once it meant an Arabian. There was a country called Arabia; but this was nothing to the point.
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My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!
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It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.
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I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
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I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for whoever's on the door, and they'd let me in. I used to think I was Nat King Cole back in the day, you know. So I'd sing something like, 'Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you,' and they'd let me in.
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I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.
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You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.
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As an old junk pusher told me, 'Watch whose money you pick up.'
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You can go down a list of footballers since the Premier League and I don't think David Beckham would probably be in the first 1,000.
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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
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Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.
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Then I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing, because the priest used to mumble everything except the church plate takings.
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Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and clerks, gardeners and fathers - fathers of small children. A country cannot bear to lose them.
