William G. Boykin (Jerry Boykin) Quotes
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.
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I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson.
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I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!
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Thinking of possibilities is like driving a car on a freeway. You have an open road that stretches endlessly before you where your thoughts are not shackled. But when we say 'impossible,' we have already reached a dead-end in our minds. So dwell on possibilities to open up your horizon.
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You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
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People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.
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I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
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I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.
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Without a song, each day would be a century.
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People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Some people buy records just to dance to 'em. Some people buy records to listen to the radio. And there's people that buy records 'cause they listen to every song.
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I like doves. They look so beautiful, like a woman. For me they represent peace and love and purity. And sometimes they're seen as the messengers of God, so they're important to me because I'm a Christian.
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They [international terrorists] are after us because we're a Christian nation.
