Sebastian Faulks Quotes
I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.
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A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'
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I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.
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Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.
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If I ever leave, it'll be after winning a championship. You need to go out on a high so that people remember you for the right reasons.
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I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.
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We are sufficiently at the mercy of machines, Roger; if our music must necessarily be mechanical, then it is time for us to throw in the sponge, and abandon all hope for the future of humanity.
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I am the only person still alive of that rescuing group but I want everyone to know that, while I was coordinating our efforts, we were about twenty to twenty five people. I did not do it alone.
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Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know?
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Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.
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ἐν παντὶ πράγει δ᾽ ἔσθ᾽ ὁμιλίας κακῆςκάκιον οὐδέν
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When I didn’t have a family, I was much more of a workaholic … I still like to work, but I also want to be home with them. As you get older, you realize you need balance. If it’s not fun, what’s the point?
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We are committed to meeting the needs of our communities and feel it's time to implement a new system that allows patients to receive treatment at the closest hospital.
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I had to make a decision. The kind of choice that you only get to make once and you can't take back, and it makes your life totally different. And even if the path is clear, it's still deeply unsettling.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.
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I think closeness to death would be pretty exhilarating in a way, and friendship, yeh, and selflessness, a kind of selflessness, a sense of your own worthlessness, I think, is pretty exhilarating.
