T. C. Boyle Quotes
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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I always thought that as much as I love 'White Jazz,' it became almost unfilmable at some point, because there are so many strands, so much, and it became so psychotic... that's what made it such a great book, but those things would not carry over into the filmic realm, I thought, with ease.
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Kids are anarchy writ large.
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My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.
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I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband, but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements, such as they are, are my own.
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A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.
