William Boyd Quotes
There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.
Quotes to Explore
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I try to photobomb as much as possible.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice over, but it's still a beautiful movie.
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People don`t like getting dirty or living in an environment that`s been contaminated and is covered in hazardous waste.
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When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.
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My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.
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The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
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There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.
