William Faulkner Quotes
...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
William Faulkner
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
Karen Joy Fowler
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I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.
Nathan Lane
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
Harlan Coben
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
Illeana Douglas
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Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.
Dana Hussein
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
Adam McKay
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As people want to move money around the world, they're going to be moving in and out of bitcoin quickly, but they're still going to own it for some period of time... and the size of that working capital requirement will grow as the global economy grows.
Barry Silbert
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The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
Maggie Smith
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
Tahar Rahim
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
Edith Wharton
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
Oscar Isaac
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Microsoft does platform, not really infrastructure, and they do a little bit of Saas.
Safra A. Catz
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Thinking differently is my strength.
Carine Roitfeld
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I love acting. It's what I do, not what I am.
Natasha Little
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
Daniel Barenboim
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
Origen
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra
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Those who have never suffered the iniquities of exile cannot possibly understand the significance, the gravitas, of a mattress.
Ariel Dorfman
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
D. H. Lawrence
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I'm a dirt road out in the country kind of person, but I remember thinking, I could live in Chicago.
Maggie Stiefvater
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When things look dark, void, and altogether hopeless to the colored youth of America..., when they need an inspiring thought that should urge them onward to the road of achievement despite forbidding obstacles, they will only need to read of and reflect upon the remarkable career of Jackie Robinson.
Jackie Robinson
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Non...I am DANCING IN MY NUDDY-PANTS!!!' And we both laughed like loons on loon tablets. I danced for ages round the house in my nuddy-pants. Also, I did this brilliant thing-I danced in the front window just for a second whilst Mr. Across the Road was drawing his curtains. He will never be sure if he saw a mirage or not. That is the kind of person I am. Not really the kind of person who goes and raises elks in Whakatane.
Louise Rennison
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...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
William Faulkner
