Malcolm Boyd Quotes
Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
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For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
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I've never been a partier.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
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This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
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I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Lived it and I'm still here to talk about it and help someone else if I can.
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Lay down the axe; fling by the spade; Leave in its track the toiling plough; The rifle and the bayonet-blade For arms like yours were fitter now; And let the hands that ply the pen Quit the light task, and learn to wield The horseman's crooked brand, and rein The charger on the battle-field.
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My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.
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I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.
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For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.
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Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
