Sebastian Faulks Quotes
And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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I think I need security.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
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I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death.
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Just being able to express myself and reach so many other people by doing so is really great!
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I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.
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I want them [female fans] to not be afraid to live life, to not be afraid to make bad decisions because there are a lot of lessons and blessings in those decisions. Sometimes, if you don't fall into the pit, you won't reach out to God.
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And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.
