William Faulkner Quotes
The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.
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Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.
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I think every woman in their life wants to give a good face smack.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
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I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are allowed to live in the West is closer to the Muslim way.
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I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.
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People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.
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One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
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I had no particular image of Chicago in mind when I wrote 'My Kind of Town.' All I wanted to do was write a song in praise of Chicago, and that's what I did.
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You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.
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The Palestinians will never, never implement their commitment to dismantle their infrastructure of terrorist organizations.
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I will come to know when my time's up, and when it is, I will exit gracefully. I will not hang around till I am kicked out.
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
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I'm OMAC! Evacuate this section! I'm going to destroy it!
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The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.
