William Faulkner Quotes
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
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I never read about photography.
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I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
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I would read all day if I could.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
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An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
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I often don't read reviews.
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.
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I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.
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The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.
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Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
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I don't like vampire movies or zombie movies. I went to see 'I Am Legend' with an ex-girlfriend the other day, and I immediately realised it was a zombie movie! You know what I mean? There are certain rules, and those rules are things that you've seen many times.
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It is the West’s provincialism, which leads it to perceive the rest of the continent as a failed copy of itself.
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If Americans are frustrated with Congress, imagine their frustration with a group of international bank officials running our ecomomy-bankers who may not have as their motive either to see us out of debt to them or to strengthen our economy, society, international influence, or other elements of our way of life.
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I do think I tend to have a darker nature than most.
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I love to travel, but hate to arrive.
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Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.
