Powers Boothe Quotes
We all want to pretend that there isn't evil in the world. We all want to pretend that there aren't people trying to take us out and different things like that.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I like things simple.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.
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I'm just a little energizer bunny. I just have a lot of energy.
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It's a sense of pride, a sense of you set out to get a record deal, and we got that. We set out to get a No. 1 record, and then we got that. Then you say, 'Wow, that was impossible and now even more impossible is to stay No. 1 and stay current and put out new records that people care about,' and we really stuck to that.
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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.
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We all want to pretend that there isn't evil in the world. We all want to pretend that there aren't people trying to take us out and different things like that.
