Darren Boyd Quotes

Auditions are very strange - you're there to win, to seek approval. They never get easier, but I did realise that you're there voluntarily, after all.

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• Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Death

• It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Job
  • Military
  • Democratic

• Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • Artist
  • Performance
  • Queen

• Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Always
  • Would
  • Were

• I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Real
  • School
  • Love

• Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • World
  • Great
  • Success

• No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Price
  • Corner

• I believe that God wants us to show respect.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Respect

• Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Vision

• The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then I was offered a job as the music director of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, in Bigfork, Montana.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • Job
  • College

• The chemistry of a pair on screen is known only when the audience reacts to it.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Audience
  • Chemistry
  • Pair

• You cannot play naive if you're not.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • You
  • Play
  • Naive

• Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Like
  • Go
  • Unattended

• Social media companies must work closely with the U.S. government to ensure their platforms are not being used by terrorist organizations to do harm to our country.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Work
  • Country
  • Media

• Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

  

  Dan Colen
  • God
  • Art
  • Kind

• One of the industries we follow very closely is the trucking industry. They would love if today there was an option for them to run their fleets on natural gas, because of the price disparity between oil and refined diesel - which they almost exclusively run on now - and natural gas.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Love
  • Today
  • Run

• I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Believe
  • Long
  • True

• Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Believe
  • Atheism

• I would never speak about specifics in my own relationships because I think it's tacky.

  

  Jennifer Lopez

• There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Meditation
  • Techniques

• Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Mind
  • Memories

• Auditions are very strange - you're there to win, to seek approval. They never get easier, but I did realise that you're there voluntarily, after all.

  

  Darren Boyd