William J. H. Boetcker Quotes
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
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I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.
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All my films are somewhat experimental, they are all, each one, taking a certain amount of risk, but there's always the basic assumption that we should be able to appreciate the cinema as much with the mind as we can through emotional empathy. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
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When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.
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Men should stop treating feminists like ladies, and instead treat them like the men they say they want to be.
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Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.
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Men will get no more out of life than they put into it.
