William Faulkner Quotes
A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I look formidable.
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I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
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You don't not want to beat somebody because you're friends with them.
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Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I change the tuning.
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Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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If you gay, you gay. Like, that's your preference, you know?
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You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.
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My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.
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I just keep happy and help the team when I get an opportunity.
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I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.
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The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.
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You have this enormous network and no one knows what's out there.
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I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
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I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.
