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William Boyd Quotes

I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: March 7, 1952

Topics

People Reputation Reality Living

If you walk out of the house and think you feel great, or if someone tells you that you look amazing, believe it and just say thank you.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Great Walk Amazing Believe Think

Leadership, to me, is about the ability to have people want to hear what you have to say. People want to be around you, people want to believe in what you tell them, and they feel good when they walk away from you about who they are and what they're doing.

Andrew Whitworth

Leadership Good Walk People Me You

There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.

War Poverty Never Maybe

Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.

John Michael Hayes

Intelligence Trouble Nothing Race

All questions of process require an answer that begins with a very important sentence, and the sentence is: 'Everybody is different.' Whatever way of working you name - methodical, haphazard, gets up early in the morning, sleeps all day, works at night, revises immensely, never revises at all - someone has made great work with that way.

Work Morning Great Day Night Name

Actually, I get a little say in what my character would or wouldn't do.

Character Say Little Get Would

I've never worked in a retail store, but I did sell shoes at Gimme Shoes in San Francisco, a job I was fired from.

Shoes Job Never Fired Retail Sell

'Underrated.' That is the word that best describes Prince, the Guitarist. Why? Because his phenomenal guitar-playing was just one arrow in a quiver full of remarkable talents.

Best Why Talents Arrow Just One

Very few companies can perform at scale over the course of decades, and Yahoo has done that.

Done Over Decades Course Scale Few

When you don't work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name.

Work Black Name You Next Little

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Love Love Is People Solitude Two

I imagine that, for most people, acting isn't something they think is a viable option, whereas for me, it was the most viable option. No adults around me knew how to do anything else.

People Me Think Acting Anything How

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