William Faulkner Quotes
The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
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I played cover gigs and traveled the country in my mom's old car, and my drummer and I set up a fake email and sent it out to agents. We pretended to be our own agent.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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Luxury is a state of mind.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.
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When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
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Female influence came from my grandmother and my aunt. They would sing Corsican love songs while cleaning the house and dress all in black and say melodramatic things like: 'I want to die.'
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I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.
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By any measure, NBC is a corporation.
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The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
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I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
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My friends are my family.
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But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.
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This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it out. You write something you love and keep banging on people's heads until somebody lets you do it.
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Chinese people age overnight.
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Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words start coming out it can build into something special.
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But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky. My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime.
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The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.
