William Faulkner Quotes
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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I was brought up as a normal kid.
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.
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The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.
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Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.
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The victory of vivisection marks a great advance in the triumph of ruthless, non-moral utilitarianism over the old world of ethical law; a triumph in which we, as well as animals, are already the victims, and of which Dachau and Hiroshima mark the more recent achievements.
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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
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Unless you find paradise at your own center, there is not the smallest chance That you may enter
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And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.
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But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.
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As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.
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even if you do the best you can in all things, your human nature must often fall short; so entrust yourself to God's goodness, for his goodness is greater than your failures.
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For all the hopeful dreamers morons out there... Stop praying for God to make things happen for you. Just make them happen.
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I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.
