Allen Boyd Quotes
I have fought to provide emergency assistance for farmers and ranchers to help respond to the downturn in the economy.
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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
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One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a book.
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Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you're doing.
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I think I know what works and what doesn’t. Most of it is, is all we’ve got is people. It’s just a matter of how people are managed and helped and encouraged, etc etc, rather than anything else.
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I have fought to provide emergency assistance for farmers and ranchers to help respond to the downturn in the economy.
