T. C. Boyle Quotes
I never go anywhere without a book for fear of being stuck in line in front of the theater or strapped down in the dentist's chair and being bored witless. Thus, I read everywhere.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
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Even when I was a kid, I always showed up late for school every day. It got to the point where they had my late slips filled for every day of the school year in advance, so all they had to do was fill in what time I got there.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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I want to win football games.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.
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As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.
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I never go anywhere without a book for fear of being stuck in line in front of the theater or strapped down in the dentist's chair and being bored witless. Thus, I read everywhere.
