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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Whiplash' was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I'd been trying to get a bigger project off the ground with no success for a while, and then finally, out of frustration, I just wrote this leaner, meaner, personal script about my experiences as a jazz drummer, and that's the one that wound up getting made.
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No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.
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... any woman who accepts aloneness as the natural by-product of success is accepting a punishment for a crime she didn't commit. And she is not acknowledging one of the most precious lessons of the women's movement, the lessons of community ... We may not able to tell women that there is safety in freedom. But we certainly can say, with absolute certainty, that for free women, the only safety is in numbers.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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They [international terrorists] are after us because we're a Christian nation.
