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 could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.
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I believe that there are issues in this country - many issues, too many to name. It's not one particular issue. But there are people out there that feel there are injustices being made and happening in our country on a daily basis.
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People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must be anchored to something. People tend to view the prices they’re used to as normal and prices removed from these levels as aberrant. This perpective leads people to trade counter to an emerging trend on the assumption that prices will eventually return to “normal”. Therein lies the path to disaster.
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Communicating is a bit of a problem. Playing in New York is great but there are times when I feel a long way from home.
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There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.
