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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The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that.
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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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She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.
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For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.
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The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.
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If we are to control our own future, it will be necessary, not only to obtain the cooperation of people, but to prepare comprehensive plans for that future.
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To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.
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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.
