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'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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I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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I went to Sirius Satellite Radio and did my show, Rapping With Rip.
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I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.
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This is my job. I just wake up, and I train.
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Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability.
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Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.
