T. C. Boyle Quotes
His hips felt as if an army of mad acupuncturists had been driving hot needles into them.
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All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.
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This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
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Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.
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Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.
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I'm home about two days a month, and on those I have to pack.
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I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour.
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I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than driving up there and climbing around Glencoe.
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His hips felt as if an army of mad acupuncturists had been driving hot needles into them.
