Allen Boyd Quotes
I have fought to provide emergency assistance for farmers and ranchers to help respond to the downturn in the economy.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Oh, there's so much ego with men; in their head, they can't possibly think about Tesco's when they are doing Othello. Er, why not? They want to think that they are such geniuses they can't muddy their day with domesticity, and I've got no truck with it whatsoever.
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Employment was better than idleness for men, because it kept the enemy guessing.
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Let us each day search from the scriptures and from the prophets…. The scriptures that are never read will never help us. If read, the words of God will nourish our souls and carry us to great heights in our endeavors.
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I've always believed in expansionary monetary policy and if necessary fiscal policy when the economy is depressed.
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I have fought to provide emergency assistance for farmers and ranchers to help respond to the downturn in the economy.
