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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The first blow is half the battle.
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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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It's a really big weekend. There's a lot more on the line for us. We're playing to try to get somewhere, even if it's a community college. We're trying to get looked at.
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Once a fight has started, if you get involved in thinking about what to do, you will be cut down by your opponent with the very next blow.
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What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.
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In a lifestyle where there are no boundaries, it becomes a challenge to find one's true self. If everything comes easily, there is no way to establish worth. And if nothing has real value, then there is no way to gauge satisfaction or accomplishment or contentment.
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the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .
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The league is known for its vindictiveness. But we didn't anticipate a suspension.
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When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted
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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.
