William Faulkner Quotes
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
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When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that makes YouTube videos.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.
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If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.
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All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.
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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
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You can't say the public likes generic characters. Give others a chance, go for a more rooted and honest characterisation, take some risk, and then let the public choose.
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If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball.
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I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.
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I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.
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I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.
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I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.
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The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.
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Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl
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There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
