William Faulkner Quotes
Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
-
Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
-
I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
-
I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.
-
I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
-
Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
-
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
-
Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
-
I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.
-
As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
-
If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.
-
The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.
-
Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.
-
When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.
-
Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
-
I like having a tailor everywhere because I am everywhere.
-
To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
-
My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
-
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
-
Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.
-
I love bringing the colors and textures of other cultures. If I wear a dress that I bought from a street vendor in Bali on a red carpet, it's a way of bringing my travels with me.
-
From last century's 'The Birth of a Nation' to this century's 'Gods and Generals,' Hollywood has likely done more than any other American institution to obstruct a truthful apprehension of the Civil War and, thus, modern America's very origins.
-
I don't really go out at all.
-
Had Passion and Purity never encountered, Tenderness had never come into the world.
