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.
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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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Yes, I don't believe that the inter-Korean relationship has, quote, 'deteriorated' since I assumed office. Rather I believe that the relationship between the two Koreas is entering into a new phase - a time of transition. And so I think that the North Koreans are trying to see what they can build with this, with my new administration.
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Some younger drivers didn't grow up seeing racing as being dangerous. They break their little finger, and they are surprised. It's like, 'Be happy it's only that.'
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I'm happy here on the surface of the earth. If space travel ever got to be as simple as jet travel today, yeah, I'd take a jet flight to the moon.
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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.
