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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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'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.
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Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.
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Some years down the pike, we're going to get the real solution, which is going to be a combination of death panels and sales taxes. It's going to be that we're actually going to take Medicare under control, and we're going to have to get some additional revenue, probably from a VAT. But it's not going to happen now.
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I want to say to every man, the Constitution of the United States, as formed by our fathers, was dictated, was revealed, was put into their hearts by the Almighty, who sits enthroned in the midst of the heavens; although unknown to them, it was dictated by the revelations of Jesus Christ, and I tell you in the name of Jesus Christ, it is as good as I could ask for.
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...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
