T. C. Boyle Quotes
From my point of view, why shouldn't I work in every possible mode, to see if it's viable? "Los Gigantes" would not have worked as a straightforward, naturalistic tale. Part of the fun of it is that it's so preposterous and yet at the same time, it could have happened. Think of eugenics. Hitler certainly would have been doing it if he could have.T. C. Boyle
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
Fabrice Grinda -
Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
Malin Akerman -
I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
Ian MacKaye -
I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
Caitlyn Jenner -
I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
Orlando Bloom -
You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.
Eartha Kitt
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
Patricia Highsmith -
I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
Karel Reisz -
Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
Sam Phillips -
I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
Vera Wang -
It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
Lara Logan
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
I don't do meetings.
Karl Lagerfeld -
We have to take care of ourselves if we are going to take care of anyone else properly.
Victoria Osteen -
We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
Zygmunt Bauman -
I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
Laura Spencer -
I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
Kate Bush
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Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
Frederick Henry Hedge -
Film festivals are usually unpleasant experiences on some level. The lines are ridiculous, the crowds are ridiculous, or the schedules are impossibly arranged: 'You say that there's a film you really want to see? Try the 8 A.M. show! Oh, it's too bad you didn't get to bed until 2 A.M. the night before.'
Yance Ford -
If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.
Jakaya Kikwete -
Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord.
Brenton Brown -
There's no telling how many guns we have in America - and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated.
Jeanne Marie Laskas -
From my point of view, why shouldn't I work in every possible mode, to see if it's viable? "Los Gigantes" would not have worked as a straightforward, naturalistic tale. Part of the fun of it is that it's so preposterous and yet at the same time, it could have happened. Think of eugenics. Hitler certainly would have been doing it if he could have.
T. C. Boyle