T. C. Boyle Quotes
Any story has a beginning, middle, and end, of course, but the question is, where do you start it exactly? It's about a guy who is murdered in a fistfight, but how does it evolve and what does it mean? That's what I discovered scene by scene, and this innovation of coming in as a first-person narrator was a complete surprise to me. It just happened.T. C. Boyle
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan -
I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
Idris Elba -
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
Carla Bley -
I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
Fidel Castro
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
Samuel L. Jackson -
I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
Isaac Hayes -
My journey has been that of a character actor.
Harry Carey, Jr. -
I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
Becky Lynch -
I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.
Madhur Mittal -
There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.
Floyd Abrams
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Obviously I will promote 'Vaalu.' It is my film. I am the lead actress in it; I play a major part, and I will promote the film.
Hansika Motwani -
I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
Ja Rule -
I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
Laura Prepon -
Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
Natalie MacMaster -
The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
Iman -
Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
Irving Babbitt
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I'm a White Sox fan, and the Blackhawks.
Jacob Zachar -
Women aren't supposed to want stuff. They're not supposed to have high emotions.
Claire Messud -
When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
Cameron Sinclair -
I am such a shy guy.
Barun Sobti -
I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.
Daniel Woodrell -
Any story has a beginning, middle, and end, of course, but the question is, where do you start it exactly? It's about a guy who is murdered in a fistfight, but how does it evolve and what does it mean? That's what I discovered scene by scene, and this innovation of coming in as a first-person narrator was a complete surprise to me. It just happened.
T. C. Boyle