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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Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
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The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
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Innovating today is about creativity; it is about the freedom to act... if you look at the big conglomerate... it's highly regulated. It's a lot of talk about... internal controls and this and that... so there's a huge mindshift change to get the best of people.
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There is no more critical indicator of the future of a society than the character, competence, and integrity of its youth.
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Don't diss me, Danvers. I'm warning you.""I'm not dissing you," Claire sighed. "I'm ignoring you. There's a difference. Dissing you implies I think you're actually important.
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They [international terrorists] are after us because we're a Christian nation.
