T. C. Boyle Quotes

I think the best endings bring you back in rather than close things off with absolute finality. I'm not saying they necessarily have to be ambiguous, but we don't always need to know what happens when everyone wakes up tomorrow morning.

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• When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.

  

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• I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.

  

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• My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.

  

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• I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.

  

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• Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

  

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• I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

  

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• I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.

  

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• I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

  

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• Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

  

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• Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.

  

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• I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.

  

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• Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

  

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• The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

  

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• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

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• Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.

  

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• I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.

  

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• I went to, you know, a church in Chicago, and my mom, of course, was in the choir because my mom was a singer; she used to sing. I wanted to be in the choir as well, and I was like, 'Mom, please, you know, I want to sing in the choir with you guys.' I kept on asking her, and finally I was, you know, in the choir.

  

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• Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

  

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• What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• I think the best endings bring you back in rather than close things off with absolute finality. I'm not saying they necessarily have to be ambiguous, but we don't always need to know what happens when everyone wakes up tomorrow morning.

  

  T. C. Boyle
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