Sebastian Faulks Quotes
I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.
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I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.
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In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
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My childhood was appalling.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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If we have the intent to use the military only when needed, then that also becomes, then, therefore, a credible deterrent.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale - and to make investments based on that - despite times when the actual data may be telling you something different.
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I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.
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I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.
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I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.
