T. C. Boyle Quotes
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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You'll probably find most models are incredibly insecure about their bodies.
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In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
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I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.
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Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
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I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
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I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
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I've gone back and forth with fine-tuning the kind of conditioning I'm doing. Sometimes trying to shed weight and getting leaner and sometimes trying to pack on a little more muscle.
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Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.
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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.
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Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.
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Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy, are the largest multipliers of resources we have to solve our many social problems.
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Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.
