Michel Faber Quotes
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
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It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
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We won't be in any reggae publications or websites.
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If I get to be a legend, I've achieved my goal.
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I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.
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I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.
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The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.
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I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.
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For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It seemed to be a sure recipe for obscurity, and to be obscure was not my conscious ambition.
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When I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.
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I respect all religions. What I don't respect is when people use religion to attack others. I've met people across the world, in the middle of nowhere, who are just trying to survive and all they have is religion. In some why, it helps them, and I wouldn't take it away from them. There are also people who use to to hate and kill. I don't consider them religious people.
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I always thought acting was all lights, camera, action. It's a job; you have to do your job correctly.
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I told him, 'I want you to call them right. Don't call them like you see them,'
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In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.
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It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.
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Some writers are more natural public performers than others; personally I find it quite strange giving interviews. But everyone has parts of their job that they like more than others. You can't complain if you get to do what you love doing most of the time, can you?
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Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.
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History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.
