William Boyd Quotes
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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Physically, it is very demanding as an actor, and I don't want to put a lot of focus on that, but I think it is emotionally and mentally a lot more... It can completely twist you... We abandon ourselves for days and months, and by the end of it, we are twisted people which you make fun of.
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In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.
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I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.
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I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.
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I was the one who was always calling people.
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No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
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People want to know where I'm going, and I just don't ever know.
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When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.
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I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.
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If you want to surf, move to Hawaii. If you like to shop, move to New York. If you like acting and Hollywood, move to California. But if you like college football, move to Texas.
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Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us.
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When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.
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The real me is happy and proud to be who I am.
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We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.
