William Faulkner Quotes
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
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Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
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It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
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Though you may not be able to change it, you can handle an ugly situation beautifully.
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Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
