Sebastian Faulks Quotes
That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.
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I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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'Twin Peaks' fans, it's a hardcore group of people.
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What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.
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The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions. If you are playing somewhere like Austria or Sweden, it takes them a little while to come out of themselves.
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I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
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I think everybody should go to high school. It's horrible, and it unites you with other people.
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
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Pleasant, summer, and slow long day; Also pleasant to pass out of chastisement Pleasant, the blossoms on the tops of the pear-trees; Also pleasant, friendship with the Creator.
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But it was impossible to remain so long in the company of a female, even a divine one, without suffering some form of disillusionment.
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The first blow is half the battle.
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Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you'll never know who u will meet in your dreams.
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You can never reach the promised land. You can march towards it.
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Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it's so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.
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Wouldn't it be a great thing if all who are well schooled in secular learning could hold fast to the "iron rod," or the word of God, which could lead them, through faith, to an understanding, rather than to have them stray away into strange paths of man-made theories and be plunged into the murky waters of disbelief and apostasy?
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The secret of contentment is never to allow yourself to want anything which reason tells you you haven't a chance of getting.
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People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.
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You know, it's a wonderful thing. I have to say that some of the greatest actors I've ever worked with have been doing anime for years. It's not just because of the popularity, either.
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Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.
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That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.
