William Faulkner Quotes
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
Quotes to Explore
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
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Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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We're doing unusual records that sound big, have a pop feel, and we're getting better at it.
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Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.
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All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.
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I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.
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It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.
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I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.
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However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.
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I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.
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It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.
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What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.
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The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.
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The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
