William Faulkner Quotes
People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.
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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
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I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, because it was just an old house that we fixed up, and I love the old house.
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I don't think we've got much of a chance to tell you the truth. But our main problem is our audience skews a little older than most shows, and I don't think our people can stay up that late. I certainly can't.
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I did exhibitions with the Surrealists in Paris, c. 1929 because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise, as was Dada's.
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Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.
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People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.
