John Boyne Quotes
War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
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We just here to do our job.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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Golf is the only game I know where you call a foul on yourself.
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My fav band is Rush.
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The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.
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Some people are more terrorist than others.
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What I find most appalling is the Senate calls it a qualified blind trust when it's not blind. Since the Senate says it's OK, the Senate has made it a political question. It's up to the voter. But there's no doubt it's a conflict of interest.
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War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.
