T. C. Boyle Quotes
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
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Time stays, we go.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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I always think Michelle Williams is excellent in her work. And I do love Sofia Coppola. She always creates something so atmospheric. I love Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Andrea Arnold.
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Excellence always sells.
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Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.
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I'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on.
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I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
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People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
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I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.
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Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.
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I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don't dress to make other people think that I'm this way or that way.
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Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.
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Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural, spontaneous encounter, unclouded by the suppositions and expectations that come between us and reality. It is, if you like, a paring down of life until we see it as it really is, free from our illusions; it is merely a divestment of ourselves until we recognize our own true nature.
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The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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I never once went to a prostitute, maybe because so many enthusiastic amateurs were around.
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If you're not working, you might as well be dead.
