William Faulkner Quotes
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I make an awesome soup with coconut milk and shrimps; it takes me five hours to prepare the whole thing. It does become very spicy, but you can definitely taste all the ingredients.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there.
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A Russia that gradually begins to gravitate toward the West will also be a Russia that ceases to disrupt the international system.
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In France, where Franklin had lived from 1776 to 1785, he had won an extraordinary place in the public mind. The French had lionized him to the point of absurdity - or so at least his colleagues in the American mission thought.
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For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.
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Singing has opened so many doors for me. And that's definitely a true passion of mine. It's a natural, God-given gift.
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As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.
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I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.
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Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains.
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Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.
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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.
