T. C. Boyle Quotes
I'm not looking ahead joyfully to the rest of my life or the future of the human race. I've always written about man as an animal species among other animals, competing for limited resources. Our population is exploding. Our environment is dying. Science has debunked God.
Quotes to Explore
-
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
-
I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
-
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
-
Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
-
Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
-
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
-
My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
-
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
-
I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
-
I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
-
There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
-
For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
-
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
-
Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
-
I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
-
Excellence always sells.
-
I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
-
Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
-
The reason that I like to use classical myths as models is because African American writers and African American stories are usually understood as occurring in some kind of vacuum - because of slavery.
-
I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.
-
I thought, 'If you're going to be on TV, and if you're going to be out and glamorous, the natural look can stay at home.'
-
The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.
-
In order to be an actor you really have to be one of those types of people who are risk-takers and have what is considered an actor's arrogance, which is not to say an arrogance in your personal life. But you have to be the type of person who wants the ball with seconds left in the game.
-
I'm not looking ahead joyfully to the rest of my life or the future of the human race. I've always written about man as an animal species among other animals, competing for limited resources. Our population is exploding. Our environment is dying. Science has debunked God.
