William Faulkner Quotes
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The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
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And this one I wanted to do some covers. So I just really sang some of my favorite songs.
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You can't get anymore classic than being a part of a Disney animated film. To me, that's something I can have in my back pocket for the rest of my life. I'll be able to show it to my kids. I'll be walking around Disneyland, and it'll be bizarre to shake hands with Rapunzel.
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My favorite part about Mare Barrow is her almost selfish survival instinct, as well as her increasingly gray morality. Her character arc in 'Glass Sword' is a lot deeper and more emotional than before, so I'm glad I got to write this sequel and that people want to read it.
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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
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It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.
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All living things on earth are kindred.
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Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
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I am not an action painter. Each painting is an act. The result of action and the fulfillment of action.. .No painting stops with itself, is complete of itself. It is a continuation of previous paintings and is renewed in successive ones..
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I'm all about surprises. If you watch a horror movie, and it's called 'Kiss Land,' it's probably going to be the most terrifying thing you've ever seen in your life.
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If you look back at President Bush, nobody agreed with his policies, but you understood that he was doing things that he believed was right.
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On a very basic, concrete level, there have been times when my work, regardless of the content, has harmed relationships because I made that work such a primary priority in my life.
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You have to hear from people who believe something different from you. That's why you go to college.
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I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination.
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The intelligible forms of ancient poets,The fair humanities of old religion,The power, the beauty, and the majestyThat had their haunts in dale or piny mountain,Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring,Or chasms and watery depths, - all these have vanished;They live no longer in the faith of reason.
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If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to the moon by a fifty-fourth part of their distance, and the moon fall towards the earth through the other fifty-three parts, and they would there meet, assuming, however, that the substance of both is of the same density.
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Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.
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A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.
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I have found that searching for insight is more often than not a path to total darkness.
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If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.
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What do you think of this" he asked, indicating the painting nearby. She gave him an odd look. "I think it's an enormous painting of a dog." He made a show of considering the picture and nodded seriously. "An astute observation.
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When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it.
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Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.
