William Boyd Quotes
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
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I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
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I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
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I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.
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More than anything, falling in love causes a certain female thing in a man to manifest, oddly enough.
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The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.
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In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
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When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.
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You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through
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In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder to break into.
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I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day.
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Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.
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I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.
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We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
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I have certain physical features that I favor over others. We all have our areas.
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Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.
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It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
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I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.
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I used to go to work and take heroin in the studio and then stop when I came home.
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There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
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The next movement is still in the factory.
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I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.
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There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.
