William Faulkner Quotes
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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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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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
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Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had a powerful sense that if I did not get a grip on my identity, my ethics, and my religion, I would go off the rails.
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To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this: the inability to confront that which is.
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
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Tritt listened placidly, clearly understanding nothing, but content to be listening; while Odeen, transmitting nothing, was as clearly content to be lecturing.
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Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
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But I think the credit has to go to Geddy... he spent a lot of time in the studio with Paul, I think he needed that kind of focus to be in there to be a part of the whole thing, and for the most part he made all the major decisions.
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The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.
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There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.
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It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.
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I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call 'Don McLean' when I was probably in high school.
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I love flying and kind of just fascinated with it, and to fly something like an F-22 would be a blast.
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We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
