William Boyd Quotes
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
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Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to produce the ultra-nationalist military dictatorship of General Pilsudski.
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When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
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Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.
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If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.
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If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.
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My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
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Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.
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There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.
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I heard Davey Havok has a brand of eyeliner out now... its AFI-liner
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I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
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We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.
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You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China.
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She dumped me for the quarterback after she'd played my body like a banjo. So Sad." "I bet" "I'm serious. I was heartbroken." "For how long?" "A whole week." An eternity in the life of a teenage boy.
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A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
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Why will our elections be equal? Because neither differences in regard to property (differences partly existing) nor differences of race and nationality will cause any privileges or disadvantages. Women will enjoy the right to elect and be elected equally with men. Our elections will be really equal.
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I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.
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I know how the game is played, and I'm always working on it.
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The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.
