T. C. Boyle Quotes
Work saved me. Literature saved me. It sounds corny but it's absolutely true. I was going in the wrong direction, but after the 9,000th night at the bar doing dope with a bunch of Dead Heads, I began to think there was something more.
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Home is where one starts from.
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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.
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They had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true.
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I just want to do my best, to be as close to the top as I can, and to get the maximum out of the car.
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We flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book.
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Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to see the fruits of your actions in a daily way.
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Work saved me. Literature saved me. It sounds corny but it's absolutely true. I was going in the wrong direction, but after the 9,000th night at the bar doing dope with a bunch of Dead Heads, I began to think there was something more.
