T. C. Boyle Quotes
The reason we love nature is because it's fascinating and we love all the creatures, but if you watch any nature film, there's always a lesson: "the creatures are all dying and life sucks." The same is true of literature.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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Most importantly, you have to stay true to yourself as well as those fans who made you who you are as an athlete.
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I know I am extraordinarily lucky to be doing what I am doing. I have worked hard along the way and I have been blessed too. I have had a great life.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dying, and as soon as you flinch, you get your head cut off. I'm not afraid of losing this business.
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Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.
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The fashion world is so interesting because it's always changing, but if you know yourself really well, despite of all the changes in the fashion trends, you know how to stay true to yourself.
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For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.
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We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.
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I really don't feel that writing is therapy.
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Shorter work - personal essays and book reviews - allow me to take a break from working on a book, which is good for the book and for its author.
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I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.
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The reason we love nature is because it's fascinating and we love all the creatures, but if you watch any nature film, there's always a lesson: "the creatures are all dying and life sucks." The same is true of literature.
