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Sebastian Faulks Quotes

I've found contemporary Britain difficult to write about because it seems to me to have lacked gravity or grandeur. This is some cultural problem which I don't really understand. It simply isn't the same in the United States.

Sebastian Faulks

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: April 20, 1953

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Me Problem Gravity Understand Write

I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.

Jim Jarmusch

New York Loved Literature Year New

Spike Lee really gave us a platform, men and women of color.

John David Washington

Women Men Color Men And Women Us

People have been to jail when they're innocent. I knew I would never miss a single ball on a snooker table on purpose and, until then, I was sure the evidence would support me.

John Higgins

Purpose Support People Me Table

The medicines of today are based upon thousands of years of knowledge accumulated from folklore, serendipity and scientific discovery. The new medicines of tomorrow will be based on the discoveries that are being made now, arising from basic research in laboratories around the world.

John Vane

Today Knowledge Tomorrow Research

When you don't play those big matches for a few years, it's tough to play back-to-back after that.

Stan Wawrinka

Tough You Play Years Big Those

To be sure, hunters and sportsmen back gun rights. Beyond that, there are millions who see guns as a defense against fear - fear of criminals breaking into their homes or assaulting them on city streets.

Robert Dallek

Fear City Gun Back Beyond See

I heard about the Holocaust before hearing the 'Cinderella' story or watching 'Peter Pan.'

Joshua Oppenheimer

Story Holocaust Watching Hearing

Well, you can, but tell you this, that when you've got an economy that is growing at 4.9% it is the fastest growth over the last 12 months we've seen in 20 years.

Donald Evans

Growth You Growing Economy Over

I didn't realize Boston was so easy to get around. In my head, I imagined Boston being this really sprawling city.

Dean O'Gorman

City Easy Realize Boston Head Get

I'm not going to change; I'm very stubborn in this way. I am what I am.

Anne Wojcicki

Change I Am Stubborn I Am What I Am

I always look for inspiration, and the creativity of artists is an essential element to my life, my work, and my happiness.

Peter Marino

Life Work Happiness Creativity Look

At the peak of his scientific triumphs, Newton became a 'head,' a student of the inner spiritual world - or in modern terms, a neurologician. Modern physicists do not dwell on this dramatic life-change in their hero.

Timothy Leary

Hero Spiritual World Student Dwell