William Faulkner Quotes
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.
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The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.
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It was time to be honest with myself. To survive all the shame this world will throw at you, you have to hold yourself tall, look your accuser straight in the eye. Even if it’s your own face looking back at you.
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These cats drink champagne and toast to death and pain, Like slaves on a ship talking about who's got the flyest chain
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Races love to be judged in two ways-by the great men they produce, and by the average merit of the mass of the race.
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We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses.
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Barring some sociopaths, probably, there is nobody who doesn't care about their appearance.
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I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.
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Porter Square Books was the only place I could find that was dog-friendly, work-friendly, and had food. I was there all the time.
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
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Playing on Saturdays, seeing 75,000 people yell your name, 88, ASJ, and all of that stuff is great.
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I just made the decision that I was going to try comedy, and if didn't work, then I knew it didn't work. Then I would go back and do whatever. But at least I wouldn't torture myself the rest of my life, wondering whatever would have happened.
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[I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it.
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I don't live in Los Angeles. I work in Los Angeles, and even that - I audition in Los Angeles; I very rarely film in Los Angeles. I don't hang out with producers on my off-hours, so I don't even know what that world is like.
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Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.
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Long after I’m gone, people will have these paintings with dust and footprints in them. It will be something really special for people to enjoy and remember.
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And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.
