William Faulkner Quotes
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama's hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.
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It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in hopes of one day someone taking a chance on me and saying, 'You know what? You're going to be our girl.'
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I couldn't care less about business.
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
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I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.
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I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.
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When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'
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To be alone with the girl to whom he is not engaged, is a man's delight; - to be alone with the man to whom she is engaged is the woman's.
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You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.
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Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.
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When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.
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I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.
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Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
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That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.
