William Boyd Quotes
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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I was a tomboy.
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Golf is played with the arms.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
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There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
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I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.
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We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.
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We have to look forward and keep filming new films and not get stuck in the past.
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I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.
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My husband may have been in the military, but no one tells me which leader to follow.
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It was not by accident or coincidence that the rights to freedom in speech and press were coupled in a single guaranty with the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for redress of grievances. All these, though not identical, are inseparable. They are cognate rights, and therefore are united in the First Article's assurance.
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Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.
