T. C. Boyle Quotes
The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something out. And it works.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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There is inspiration all around us.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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No dream is ever chased alone.
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Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.
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What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.
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We have defined these characters - people always expect to see me in a pencil skirt. When they see me out of one - much like when they see Jon Hamm's hair when it isn't slick - they say, 'Wait a minute, you're all 2010!'
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I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it. Nobody could then 'smile darkly and ignore the howls.' Even if there were no Church to teach me this, writing two novels would do it. I think the more you write, the less inclined you will be to rely on theories like determinism. Mystery isn't something that is gradually evaporating. It grows along with knowledge.
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...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.
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The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something out. And it works.
