Hal Boyle Quotes
Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.
Quotes to Explore
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.
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But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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I need to set the record straight for myself.
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Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.
