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The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.


William Faulkner

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KEN BURNS I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those ...
CANDY CROWLEY I only need 5 things in life: Pen, Paper, Internet, Food and Sleep.
IFEOLUWA EGBETADE When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, ...
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JOHN GRISHAM In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cr...
LAURENCE YEP These guys are ready to do what it takes. All they need is the tools to work with for the children.
GLEN MITCHELL As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner have fewer published novels combined tha...
NICHOLAS SPARKS With my background, there might be some need for teaching, depending on the population in the shelte...
EDWIN MORGAN I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
AL LEWIS I need a whiskey (or 2) , a party, and some fun, but it looks like I have to settle for less again.
KATE Toni Morrison has a habit, perhaps traceable to the pernicious influence of William Faulkner, of plu...
JOHN UPDIKE My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whisk...
MIKE KRIEGER What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA My father was among the first of his generation to look into writers who've become part of the A...
ANTONYA NELSON I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.
JULIEN GREEN I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.
JULIAN GREEN I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the m...
QUINCY JONES A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco, wrapped in paper, fire at one end, fool at the other.
UNKNOWN My three addictions of choice are food, love and work.
ALANIS MORISSETTE It is worth more than food and drink, tobacco, insurance, ships and aircraft,
DRUMMOND BONE Even at these weaker levels we still consider tobacco company paper unacceptably risky.
CAROL LEVENSON Individuals interested in donating can call The Bridge. We do still need food, paper products, money...
MAGGIE JONES I don't suppose I could have a whiskey instead of the wine, could I?"
"Whiskey?"
"Yes"
B.A. PARIS He is a great artist. He may be the finest artist among American writers since William Faulkner and ...
HAROLD BLOOM All I need to do
is place my pen against paper
and your love
writes for me.
KAMAND KOJOURI It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't w...
STEVE JOBS I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material...
PETER ZUMTHOR My name is William Tell:when little oppressions touch mearrows hidden in my cloakwhisper, "Ready, re...
WILLIAM STAFFORD In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the n...
PEARL S. BUCK The phone has been ringing off the hook, literaly nonstop. People who are here looking for food, age...
MICHAEL GUERRA I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco...
ARTURO TOSCANINI If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal f...
LUIS BUNUEL If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal f...
LUIS BUñUEL The South is full of memories and ghosts of the past. For me, it is the most inspiring place to writ...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO I appreciate their effort and the work that they're doing, but they need to work a little bit harder...
DAVID PIPER I have a lot of fake food in my apartment, but I'm picky about it. Old plaster food, like from t...
AMY SEDARIS I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, an...
KARA WALKER I'm a writer who stacks cat food for a living. It's true: I have a master's degree in cr...
ALI LIEBEGOTT I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work in...
BARRY HANNAH Tobacco-cessation programs are critical for the 45 million Americans who still smoke. Research shows...
CHERYL HEALTON I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when ...
ALICE MCDERMOTT A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child's kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. "Tras...
ELLEN HOPKINS When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrat...
CAMILA ALVES I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tob...
ARTURO TOSCANINI I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, an...
MARCUS SAMUELSSON One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and gi...
ELI WHITNEY I'll work hard. I just want to take care of my family. My little boy, my wife, they need me. Mexican...
ALEX VALDEZ I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film critic...
CLAIRE MESSUD The need for love and intimacy is a fundamental human need, as primal as the need for food, water, a...
DEAN ORNISH Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.
RON RASH I've been storing up food for a little while, trying to build up my pantry.
JENNIFER RIENKS He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.
JENNIFER ELISABETH In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robe...
DAVID MILCH They need to get a job and work like I did for most of my life.
LORENZO BERNARD LOCKETT I was told I had to gain a lot of weight because Hobbits are very portly. Peter [Jackson] is forever...
SEAN ASTIN Faulkner wrote for film, and his ear is just impeccable.
DAVID MILCH Have you not reason then to be ashamed and to forbear this filthy novelty, so basely grounded, so fo...
JAMES VI & I I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can'...
OLIVIA WILDE My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earl...
RICK MOODY You have to see the bigger picture. And for that, you need sophisticated tools.
DOUGLAS EMIG I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I...
GISELE BUNDCHEN Tobacco use is the single leading cause of preventable death. The vast majority of all adult tobacco...
DR. JOANN SCHAEFER It's essential to make sure you have proper kitchen tools for food storage - like cling wrap, ba...
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GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that ...
PRINCE WILLIAM They rescued my three little kitties. I didn't need a rescue for me, just for them.
JEANNA STEWART This is my life. I don't need a piece of paper to make it a family unit.
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN For my work, I need to be close to the city. And the price is right for this point in my life.
REBECCA SHAW These students are America's future leaders, and these missions give them the tools they need to bec...
BARRY SILVERMAN My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
WILLIAM SHATNER I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I ...
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ALAN LEVIN It is essential for me to work with tools that are reliable and offer complete functionality, which ...
DANIEL HUMM It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a litt...
DOROTHY ALLISON Whiskey will always be a part of my life.
ARTIE LANGE Me? I go wherever the wind blows…and wherever the whiskey shots are half price.
NICKI ELSON They're cheap for a reason. They're either very little, or they need work, or both.
BARBARA HOWLAND No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him: there is always work, And tool...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A little monograph on the ashes of one hundred and forty different varieties of pipe, cigar, and cig...
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MARTHA STEWART (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON With the dried blood stiff on my temples I climbed the hill, cursing the satanic way of men, yet kno...
HENRY WILLIAMSON [It was just their food that began to stick in his throat.] I love Chinese food, ... I could even pi...
CHERYL BAKER I am a little old fashioned, and I love to have my scripts printed out. There is something magical a...
OLGA FONDA My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Us...
KENNETH JOSEPH ARROW I am quite sane, according to my three distinct personalities and my seven passive ones.
THE PAPER DOLL In the morning when I wake
And the sun is coming through,
Oh, you fill my lungs with sweet...
THE PAPER KITES The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food...
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JOHN MACKEY This is a war against the groups that work to help the needy, those who need food, the orphans.
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WILLIAM FAULKNER But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inerti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself
WILLIAM FAULKNER All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.
WILLIAM FAULKNER She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried tw...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
WILLIAM FAULKNER ...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his o...
WILLIAM FAULKNER If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
WILLIAM FAULKNER And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or wom...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Did you ever have a sister? did you?
WILLIAM FAULKNER Caddy smelled like trees.
WILLIAM FAULKNER a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got...
WILLIAM FAULKNER In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are ...
WILLIAM FAULKNER They're shining examples of being active in the community and active for small-forest landowners. Th...
BOB FAULKNER We were focused against Shelton. We obviously came ready to play. I thought the key to the game was ...
BOB FAULKNER Against Mercy we played with no intensity. It was not a good effort. We appeared sluggish, but Mercy...
BOB FAULKNER We want to improve every match; to learn from every match, to be consistent and the number one goal ...
BOB FAULKNER One of the things that made Epic strong when I wrote the original code was that it never occurred to...
JUDITH FAULKNER When the sky is clear, there will be eight Reindeer But when you can't see the sky, then Rudolph wil...
IRENE FAULKNER Clients now can store all types of files as attachments to their email and use our web-based email p...
CHRISTOPHER FAULKNER I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, no...
JUDITH FAULKNER All I knew is that I had to stay with her (Hall). She's taller than me but I felt I kept up with her...
ANNESIA FAULKNER The Simon-Williamson clinic is our priority today. The next step is preparing to accept the business...
CHARLIE FAULKNER I take my hat off to Erickson. He's a polished high school pitcher who has command of three pitches ...
CRAIG FAULKNER It's great to see Anderson really step up. He throws strikes and is sneaky fast and hits his spots.
CRAIG FAULKNER We played the way Venice High is supposed to play. Even if we would have lost tonight, I still would...
CRAIG FAULKNER Everybody comes to play in the big games and we knew it wasn't going to be easy. They came back and ...
ANNESIA FAULKNER We had struggled with free throws all season long, so the last couple of days in practice that's wha...
ANNESIA FAULKNER I'm really excited because these are my first wins (at state). I kind of expected the 200 IM, but I ...
AMANDA FAULKNER We didn't know it until we got up there (on the medal stand).
AMANDA FAULKNER