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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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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Everything is true, and nothing is true!
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The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.
