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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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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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 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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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
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If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
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This music isn't Top 40, we really stand out from anyone.
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In 2014, topics like Black Lives Matter, the Middle East, and Ebola were prominent in the national discussion, with mentions of then-President Barack Obama making up a relatively small slice of the discussion on news twitter.
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I'm not particularly good at running things when once they get to a certain level. Once it gets routine, get me out of the way.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of 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.
