Arthur Boyd Quotes
They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. It's crazy. A lot of times, people get in their feelings, like, 'You don't remember me?!'
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.
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I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reckless with things. I'm a passionate person. I'm a super passionate person. I think there's definitely been sorrow in my life, good and bad. I think it comes through. I hope it comes through in my writing because to me that's what artistry is.
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When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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What if Whitney was at her top, and we brought in a name like Whitney Houston, it would sell.
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I'm honored to have been chosen as a fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. I am hugely appreciative for the support I have had throughout my life, and I look forward to using the grant to help institutions that have fed my soul and to support new work that inspires me.
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Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.
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They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.
