T. C. Boyle Quotes
Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certainly wouldn't ride like that; you just have to be careful. I can understand going down the outside of traffic, but you should obey the rules of the road because we're all road users.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.
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To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this: the inability to confront that which is.
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I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.
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I think there is a difference between connecting with a character and supporting and believing their policies.
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Yeah. Sure. My brother's dead. My mother's insame. Hey, let's have a crepe.
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Writing is a channeling of an individual experience; so is reading. That's what's so exciting about this art form - it's interactive.
