T. C. Boyle Quotes
This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.
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I love the Bronte sisters, but I feel a closer kinship to the Ephron sisters, Nora and Delia, if only because their work makes me laugh more than the Brontes. I also love the Mitford sisters with their secret language and their endless letters back and forth.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.
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I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.
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I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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We need to educate our audience. It's so important to have diversity. Let's not fear different voices.
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My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it.
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Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.
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I’m not trying to hate on nobody. I love everybody that works towards what I was working towards. It’s a hard game, it’s a hard life.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
