T. C. Boyle Quotes
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While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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50 years old is like springtime to me.
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I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.
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We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs.
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I'm pretty much living my dream job, but one day I would love to dedicate more time to writing and performing my own music.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
