Allen Boyd Quotes
I strongly believe that American farmers and businesses can compete with anyone in the world if they are given a level playing field.
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
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There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
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You get a little older, and you start understanding the world in a different way and what you don't have control over and what you do have control over.
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It's always nice when people appreciate your work because it means you've affected them, which is great. And so that feels good.
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I strongly believe that American farmers and businesses can compete with anyone in the world if they are given a level playing field.
