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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The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?
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It therefore should be possible for even the photographer - just as for the creative poet or painter - to use the object as a stepping stone to a realm of meaning completely beyond itself.
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Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between the shadows of the fig tree, makes the low wall of coarse Granite warm to the touch. Here my tools lie ready and waiting, Each one an intimate, an ally: the round basket for weeds: The zappetta, the small hoe with a short haft . . . There's a rake here as well, at at times a mattock and spade, Or two watering cans filled with water warmed by the sun. With my basket and small hoe in hand, facing the sun, I Go out for my morning walk.
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There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.
