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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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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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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In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.
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By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.
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While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.
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It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.
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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.
