William Boyd Quotes
The last thing we ever learn about ourselves is our effect.
William Boyd
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Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?
Kabir Bedi
So now the devil's in my soul.
Christina Aguilera
People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn't kill myself and now, thank God, I'm here.
Nicki Minaj
A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.
Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
I'm one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I'm the only DJ that's scratching.
Alain Macklovitch
Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward.
Oprah Winfrey
To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.
T. S. Eliot
Might does not make right! Right makes right!
T. H. White
Discovering that with every child, your heart grows bigger and stronger - that there is no limit to how much or how many people you can love, even though at times you feel as though you could burst - you don't - you just love even more.
Yasmin Le Bon
Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.
Allan Massie
You can get a big gust of wind, and your Olympics are over.
Lindsey Vonn
Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity.
Amy Lowell
