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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The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
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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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A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
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I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.
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We want to say thank you the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll. Any entertainment to break up the work week is great. You can forget about life, relax and have a reminder that there is an appreciation there.
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On the flight over to the Gulf of Mexico, I wondered about how they say you can never go home again, but maybe an equally expensive reality is how many people, regardless of how many years or miles they put between themselves and where they were born, are never truly able to leave home.
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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.
