William Boyd Quotes
In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
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I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
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Merely to come into the world the heir of a fortune is not to be born, but to be still-born, rather. To be supported by the charity of friends, or a government-pension, - provided you continue to breathe, - by whatever fine synonymes you describe these relations, is to go into the almshouse.
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Sure, I love people, and I want to communicate with people. I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.
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The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.
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I don't think any artist has really relied on music videos the way I do. It's almost like my radio.
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I'll never be satisfied in classical ballet. It'll never be good enough. I'll never be happy with most of my product.
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In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.
