Darren Boyd Quotes
After we'd filmed one series of 'Kiss Me Kate,' everyone was saying: 'The guy's got great comic timing,' - that was the first I'd heard of it. I'm not a comedian, I don't want to depend on a singular box of tricks. I like story and characters, to take on world views that are not my own.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.
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I love cooking and baking.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
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I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
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Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
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There is a world within - a world of thought and feeling and power; of light and beauty, and although invisible, its forces are mighty.
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I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?
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After we'd filmed one series of 'Kiss Me Kate,' everyone was saying: 'The guy's got great comic timing,' - that was the first I'd heard of it. I'm not a comedian, I don't want to depend on a singular box of tricks. I like story and characters, to take on world views that are not my own.
