Arthur Boyd Quotes
I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.
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I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
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Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.
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In many parts of the world, chaining of people with mental illnesses is not uncommon, nor is seeing people walking around in clearly an unwell state, half naked, and no one takes any notice of them. It is tragic. There is a basic human right, which is not about just healthcare, but it is about the right to life with dignity, a right to citizenship.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
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Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.
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If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.
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There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.
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I started out as a Democrat.
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For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.
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You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.
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... the cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and egoistic is relatively close. Under many conditions the cooperative forces lose, In the long run, however, the group centered, more altruistic drives are slightly stronger. ... human altruistic drives are as firmly based on an animal ancestry as is man himself. Our tendencies toward goodness... are as innate as our tendencies toward intelligence; we could do well with more of both.
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Klopp helped me play my favourite position again - centre-forward.
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Politicians are scrutinized for what they have done wrong, but rarely for what they have not done to improve the situation of the people they are.
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I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.
