William Faulkner Quotes
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
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We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.
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I was married for 10 minutes into a Southern family.
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What I think is sad about the rom-com genre is that it has adopted this pejorative title. I think the reason why there haven't been as many great ones is because we are fighting against the genre itself. If it is a romantic comedy then snuggle up to the fact that it can be a really earnest, refreshing feeling to feel good after a movie.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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Growing up in the middle of nowhere, there was a lot of twangy music around, but it didn't really connect with me then.
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Let the perfectionist play postal.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system.
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I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
