William Faulkner Quotes
To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
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My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.
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Staying fit is all about trying to find enjoyment in something physical, because that's the only way you're gonna get results.
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Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
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I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in.
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Vitia erunt donec homines
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Come! let the burial rite be read - the funeral song be sung! - An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young - A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
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There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
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When I was 40 and looking at 60, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But 62 feels like a week and a half away from 80. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.
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I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning.
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How commentators each dark passage shun,And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
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I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?
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You emphasize morality. But the ultimate basis of morality is survival. What promotes survival is good; what induces mortifaction is bad.
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Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.
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The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.
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What ails the truth is that it is mainly uncomfortable, and often dull. The human mind seeks something more amusing, and more caressing.
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To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.
