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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
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Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.
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No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and clichés and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.
