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.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Movies

• I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Thinking
  • Go
  • Straight

• Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Serious
  • Doing
  • Potential

• I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Hands

• 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.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Good
  • Good Things

• I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Mind
  • Career
  • Thought

• After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • War
  • Government

• 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.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Day
  • Rest

• There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Politician
  • Out
  • Smarter

• 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.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Question

• The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Society
  • Satisfied
  • Top

• I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Think
  • Guy

• 'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Story
  • Two
  • Sides

• 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.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Time
  • Know
  • Year

• I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• 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.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Win
  • Gold

• There is inspiration all around us.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Inspiration

• 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.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Myself
  • Forever

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• It seems to me that you can go sauntering along for a certain period, telling the English some interesting things about themselves, and then all at once it feels as if you had stepped on the prongs of a rake.

  

  Patrick Campbell
  • Interesting
  • English
  • Period

• I work at my garden all the time and with love. What I need most are flowers, always. My heart is forever in Giverny.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Love
  • Garden
  • I Work

• I went straight from the Marine Corps to the MFA. The way that you would express things among Marines is somewhat different than the way you're supposed to express things in a creative-writing workshop.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Marine

• When you're just starting out in the TV business, you don't know anything at all, and you think you're doing a better job than everyone else around you, and you just sort of presume that you're not getting the credit you deserve. And then when you start to get better, the pressure is extraordinary, and then you start to second-guess everything you do, and when people start looking to you for answers, for insight and for analysis and guidance, you start to wonder if you are the right person - even when you have all the information.

  

  Katy Tur
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Deserve

• 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.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Knows