William Faulkner Quotes
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.William Faulkner
Quotes to Explore
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
Quentin Tarantino -
I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.
Rafael Palmeiro -
What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
Victor Hugo -
I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
Mae West -
It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.
Randy Houser -
Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
M. J. Rose
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Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
Walter Gropius -
We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.
Wayne Rogers -
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
Yann Martel -
I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
Ed Asner -
Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.
Raf Simons -
Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
Rand Paul
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If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.
Fiona Apple -
It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
Wallace Stevens -
Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.
Rachael Harris -
We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.
Arthur C. Clarke -
So now the devil's in my soul.
Christina Aguilera
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Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the centre of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant. 'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.
Jules Verne -
Mexico will under no circumstance pay for the wall that Mr. Trump is proposing.
Luis Videgaray Caso -
On my left forearm, I've got a gothic cross with a tombstone in the center with the initials 'E' and 'G' for my friend, the late Eddie Guerrero.
Rey Mysterio -
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
William Faulkner