Sebastian Faulks Quotes
They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I need to be more consistent about taking care of myself no matter how busy I am.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
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Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.
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Accomplishment, the feeling of absorption in the flow, of mastery for its own sake, of knowing how to do this thing, is what keeps all of us doing what we do, if we like what we do at all.
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Now hollow fires burn out to black,And lights are guttering low:Square your shoulders, lift your pack,And leave your friends and go.Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread,Look not to left nor right:In all the endless road you treadThere's nothing but the night.
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I can't think of anything that's hit me harder in my life than when I learned that three of our youngest grandchildren were diagnosed with Niemann-Pick C.
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'The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and in fact, it happens to have more characters who are not Ethiopian than who are.
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Individuality or Unity? I say there's room for both.
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You should never doubt yourself because you never, ever know what's around the corner.
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He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention.
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I've been lucky and very fortunate over the course of my career, and I try to do something good for people every day.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation.
