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John Boyne Quotes

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: irish
Birth: April 30, 1971

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I Am War People Violence Kind Am

What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case.

Think Potential More Two Happen Did

I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host.

Eyes Culture Man Story Loved Gay

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

Life You Go Kid Taken Lapel

I never even was in any of my high school plays. I mean, look at me. What role could they give me - the tooth fairy?

School Me High School Look Never

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

Tears Eye Language Noble

Businesses increasingly have to differentiate themselves around their people, as much as their product, because thing are so replicable now.

Steve Easterbrook

People Now Product Because Much

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.

Life Father Pain Joy World New Life

I saw 'Cats' on a school trip. I thought it was neat and a little weird. The set was cool.

Cats School Cool Thought Weird Saw

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.

Time Story Place Difficult Exciting

You have so much more time to observe and learn with a documentary because of the time between the shoots. You get a much deeper understanding of day-to-day life and its themes. It's also much more of a mess after three years; you have to comb it out carefully and see what fits together and makes sense.

Life Time Together Learn You Three

I took a Chinatown bus to New York to enroll in the International Culinary Center's pastry program.

New York New Bus Center Pastry Took

Gun rights advocates - many whom also believe that the US constitution is divinely inspired and that the rights it enumerates are God-given - face a conundrum. Their very insistence that the government not restrict guns in public spaces or limit their sales in any way also obviously inhibit other Americans' rights as covered by the US constitution.

Government Believe Constitution Face

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