William Boyd Quotes
To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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I'm curvy.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
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The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.
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I think there's plenty of evidence that we need to stop spewing so much carbon into the air, that we're contributing to climate change and that we ought to look for alternatives.
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I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.
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Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible in this area, is it also possible in the vexed and sordid realm of race relations?
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I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.
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To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.
