Malcolm Boyd Quotes
Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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It's very important to understand that we never do the same thing twice; each of our projects is unique. We'll never do another 'Gates.' Each project is a unique image. We do not know in advance how the work will look. I do preparatory drawings, but they are only projections of our vision.
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To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.
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Sex is where you find it. I say take it and enjoy it. Give and receive freely, without fear, without guilt and without contractual obligations.
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I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
