William Faulkner Quotes
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We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
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I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.
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Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.
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What I do for a living is listen.
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
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I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going to lead every parade.'
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We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.
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I just try not to subscribe to the ways of celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm a working actor. A lot of the events -- the parties and the premieres that people go to to get noticed -- I'm just not into. I'll hang out with my friends, go see punk shows, read at home. At the same time, I have a production company, which is a lot of work.
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...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
