Sebastian Faulks Quotes
I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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Steven Tyler isn't in Aerosmith anymore, but his gravestone will probably say something about Aerosmith.
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I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.
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I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.
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There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players.
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The bad boys get all the best lines.
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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
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The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.
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You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing.
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When I met my wife, I was focused on making money but failing miserably.
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Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.
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You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.
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The bigger problem still is that it determines in many ways what movies get made in the first place. Because as sources of finance are considering a project, they ask themselves, "Does this lend itself to a simplistic marketing approach which will guarantee a big opening weekend?" As a movie-goer, I think that's tragic, because when you look back at those movies that made us fall in love with movies in the first place, most of them were not high-concept, and most of them would not have "won their weekend."
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I guess it's one thing to play a character and relate to a character, and it's a lot closer to me than people might think. They are obviously watching a person with another name. But when they are listening to my music, it's way more me and my story and my words . . . that is the main difference in that.
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I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.
