William Faulkner Quotes
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
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I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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I'm used to people talking about me.
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The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.
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Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.
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Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
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I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.
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If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.
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T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
