William Faulkner Quotes
By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.William Faulkner
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Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
E. Stanley Jones -
I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
Natasha Leggero -
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver -
French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
Carine Roitfeld -
The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.
Yohan Blake -
I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
Walter Becker China Crisis
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The first thing I went out for was 'The Sopranos' and I got it, so that's how it happened. I hate to say it like that because I wait for calls now.
Vanessa Ferlito -
My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
Abigail Washburn -
Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
Karen DeCrow -
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
Laura Riding -
We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
Walid Jumblatt -
I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
Vidal Sassoon -
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
B. C. Forbes -
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
E. F. Schumacher -
Modeling has always played off my D.J.-ing, but it is a fun supplement.
Harley Viera-Newton -
Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds -
Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
Taslima Nasrin
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
Wendell Pierce -
Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes me out of my brain.
Carrie Brownstein -
The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.
Laurie Anderson -
By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.
William Faulkner