William Faulkner Quotes
I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
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I've directed independent film.
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We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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All of us grow.
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That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
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You've always got to have the right blend of colour. You'd be silly to match a yellow t-shirt with a light green pair of trousers, you know? You can wear different colours at the same time, and as long as they blend with each other then it works. That's what I like.
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In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.
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Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.
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In China, I had my body lit on fire. And in Russia, I took a bath in reindeer blood, which apparently had some kind of youth-enhancing elements.
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When I was 17, I decided I was going to leave home.
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[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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The first start toward success is to be glad you are yourself.
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If a test showed you had telomere shortening, it would be a red flag suggesting you should take a look at possible risk factors.
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Everyone's constantly scrambling around trying to justify their own cruel behavior, trying to come up with psychological tricks to make themselves not feel bad.
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I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
