William Boyd Quotes
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
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Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
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We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
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I look three to five years ahead, not 10 years behind.
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One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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It wasn't until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did kill someone. But that was a choice that he faced: to kill or be killed.
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I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.
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When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.
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I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're making everything harder for yourself.
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I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
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There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
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Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.
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Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.
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We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?
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Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
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In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.
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We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what allows you to stand back and analyze the impact of that and put it in context of how it affects people.
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She's half mad and three parts drunk.
