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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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'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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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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If you do have a team where every rider has a huge list of results, that means everybody wants to do the race for themselves. The strongest team in the Tour is not the strongest team on paper.
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So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.
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Until Amazon creates a drone that can cut your hair, there's a physical and real reason to come to the store.
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I think when people are scared, they like to see movies where the scares are not real.
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In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.
