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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I'm trying to see what way I could lead so when the opportunity comes, it won't just hit me in the face.
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All my brothers and my dad at one point had dreadlocks.
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The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.
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Writing is a lonely business.
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The thing that I hate is that Nicholas Kristof style of writing where it's like, "I saw the poor, they made me so sad. What can I do about sadness? I am so brave." It's just like, shut up, man, shut up.
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That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing - from reading.
