T. C. Boyle Quotes
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I am tone deaf.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you haven't laid the groundwork to seize the opportunities.
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You never think about what life's going to be like five years down the road or 10 - you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't. You just hope this day will be a good day.
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I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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I am an Indian to the core.
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
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When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.
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I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting.
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Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
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I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I'm driving my new Mercedes, and it's paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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If our kids were hungry, we'd step into slavery.
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Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending.
