William Faulkner Quotes
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
Nadia Comaneci
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
Ian Anderson
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
Fidel Castro
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Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
Ingrid Newkirk
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
Barney Ross
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
Edmund White
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
C. L. R. James
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
Gail Carriger
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
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I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
Rachel Kushner
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
Flannery O'Connor
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
Usher
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Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
W. Edwards Deming
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
Victoria Justice
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I love the Ronettes, the 'do-run-run-run' pop stuff. I love the lyrics, having 'blue, blue blue' being repetitive.
Ville Valo HIM
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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
T. S. Eliot
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I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.
Karrine Steffans
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I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.
Luc Ferrari
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I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to be very good for me.
Erin McKeown
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I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.
Jennifer Weiner
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Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.
William Faulkner