Sebastian Faulks Quotes
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
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To say what or where we came from has nothing to do with what or where we came from. We do not come from there any more, but only from each word that proceeds out of the mouth of the unnamed. And yet sometimes it is our only way of pointing to who we are.
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If one asks for success and prepares for failure, one will get the situation one has prepared for.
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There were guys in wingtips that just didn't fly.
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I had been to Europe that summer, and they said, 'Can anybody verify that?'
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If you balance in the Present, you are living in Eternity
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I think I try to speak to the heart of the woman who I know is interested in growing into herself.
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I would say the songs that have different lyrics. I always write the music first, and there's a couple of songs on this box set that have different lyrics from what ended up on the final recording.
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As we struggle to overcome our troubles, we are making history and fulling our destiny. Keep pressing!
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I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.
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He says from Him, as Augustine says in the book On the Trinity, on account of the Father; he says through Him on account of the Son; in Him on account of the Holy Spirit. But by this, that he does not say from Them, through Them and in Them, nor does he say to Them (be) the glory, but to Him, he hints, that this Trinity is the One Lord God.
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My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.
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All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
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Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
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That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?
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I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.
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No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
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I've just been so lucky. I don't know if you're really able to take advantage of your full potential until you're older. There are a few people who are incredibly gifted and make it when they are very young, but I didn't. With women it takes longer. You just keep working and when you finally get it, it feels very, very nice.
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It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.
