Sebastian Faulks Quotes
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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I am not a good cue card reader.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.
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One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.
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I started playing around with GoPros on my own to get some cool footage. But it's actually become a big training tool for my team and me.
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My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.
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My goal in boxing is to be the best.
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The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
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Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
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In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.
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No.
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The Olympics are an opportunity to redefine the country, but the message is always wrong.
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Nulla fides regni sociis, omnisque potestasinpatiens consortis erit.
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In England, you feel like a member of the revolutionary guard the minute you even mention race. But I do think that the OscarsSoWhite phenomenon will have to reflect back on England. What people are essentially saying is that they want to see more diverse stories. It's not about putting three black people in the back of the shot.
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The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.
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The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
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Tribes will be defined by social enclaves on the internet, rather than by geography or kinship, but the world will be more fragmented and less tolerant, since ones real-world surroundings will not have the homogeneity of ones online clan.
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The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the photographer's Leica; rather, it is something dynamically produced in the act of representation and reception and already subject to the grids of meaning imposed on it by culture, history, language, and so forth.
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I went to see Chris Rock on Saturday night here in Atlanta, and he made a statement in his comedy. He said, look, when you're the big person, when you're the rich person, poor people can say stuff about you, but it's downright wrong and brutal for rich people to beat up on poor people. He said people who are larger can lampoon people who are skinnier, but not the opposite.
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One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.
