T. C. Boyle Quotes
When you're in the midst of writing, it's a beautiful thing happening through you. Many people have said that it's not you, it's the soul of humankind and so on, I don't know. But it has the same effect [as music]. It takes you out of your body and out of this planet.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reckless with things. I'm a passionate person. I'm a super passionate person. I think there's definitely been sorrow in my life, good and bad. I think it comes through. I hope it comes through in my writing because to me that's what artistry is.
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Parental love is unconditional, and so is God's love. No matter what a child of God has done against Him, or feels he or she has done that cannot be forgiven, God still loves that wondering soul.
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The one and only time I met Pope Benedict XVI was when he was Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.
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All three of us just had our eye on what was happening around us, we were very observant to what people were doing in love situations, and what was happening in the world.
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When you're in the midst of writing, it's a beautiful thing happening through you. Many people have said that it's not you, it's the soul of humankind and so on, I don't know. But it has the same effect [as music]. It takes you out of your body and out of this planet.
