Billy Boyd Quotes
Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.
Quotes to Explore
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.
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I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing children and their families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of great need is simply life-changing.
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Patience is not a virtue!
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The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership...
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The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.
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My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child thinking, 'How can a woman feel an attachment to a child without breast-feeding?'
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The mind is made up by what it feeds upon.
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Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.
