William Faulkner Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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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.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.
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If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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To go back means defeat.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.
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A mentor is someone who is willing to give you advice that isn't in the best interest for them. It takes a real mentor to put you first.
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I think a lot of people are making music that shares their life experiences, and that's what I choose to do, too, but in my life experience, I also choose to try to find the hope in the music, and I think a lot of it has to do with my Christian faith.
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I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.
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I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.
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Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.
