William Boyd Quotes
Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.William Boyd
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
Odeya Rush -
I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
Vikas Swarup -
I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
Irwin Shaw -
As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time.
Ofra Strauss -
A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
D. B. Weiss -
If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
Olin Miller
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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
Vanessa Kerry -
I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
Van Morrison -
I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
Taya Kyle -
I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
Larry Wall -
I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
Idris Elba -
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
Jack Kornfield -
You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
Cameron Diaz -
Gooseberries aren't just for creamy desserts and pies.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
Salma Hayek -
I'm not good at accepting help.
Patricia Heaton -
Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
Randy West
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
Gabriel Medina -
Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.
Patrick Ness -
I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.
David Chalmers -
I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world.
Yanis Varoufakis -
Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.
Judith Butler -
Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.
William Boyd