William Faulkner Quotes
Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
William Faulkner
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
Katee Sackhoff
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
Ian Millar
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
Victoria Principal
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To go back means defeat.
Oliver Tambo
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Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.
Harlan Coben
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People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.
Sam Shepard
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I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
Oona Chaplin
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Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.
Kate Grenville
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I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
Laura Wade
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I have some amazing fans! They're just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I'm, like, no one and I'm just starting out, and these people appreciate your work and it's nice to hear that.
A. J. Cook
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If ergonomists have their way, future products won't be built for some hypothetical average person but will conform to the biomechanical needs of whatever particular human body happens to come into contact with them.
Mary Roach
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When you've finished the film and everybody's already made back all their money, everybody just leaves you alone and I'm very happy. That's what it has to be like.
Cliff Martinez
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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.
Iggy Azalea
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To a New Yorker, a 1948 Indians World Series baseball signed by the whole team might be worth only $200 to $300, but to a Clevelander like myself, it might be, like, $1,000 to $2,000.
Fred Willard
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Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
William Faulkner
