Brian Boyd Quotes
In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.
Quotes to Explore
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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As I don't know what life would be like without my Chaplin connections, I work with them. I'm just really happy it's a family I can be proud of; it's not as if I'm related to some Z-list celebrity.
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When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection.
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There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.
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Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
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There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
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Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.
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Physical comedy is my favorite thing in the world to do.
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Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.
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I think most people have no idea about what religious freedom means.
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Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'états, the removal of legitimate power.
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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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Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.
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In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.
