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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Unfortunately, in the race to the most douchebaggery, Silicon Valley is fast in gaining on Hollywood. That race is neck and neck.
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When I look back, I didn't take care of myself at all.
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Nature has had regard in everything no less to the end than to the beginning and the continuance, just like a man who throws up a ball. What good is it then for the ball to be thrown up, or harm for it to come down... what good is it to the bubble while it holds together, or what harm when it is burst?
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One begins by plaguing oneself to no purpose in order to be true to nature, and one concludes by working quietly from one's own palette alone, and then nature is the result.
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In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.
