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William Boyd Quotes

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Bond Suffer Disconnect Film Between

When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.

Music Step Me Opinion Thinking End

Growing up, 'Cosmo' was my lifeline to the world. A world that I wanted to be in but couldn't get to yet.

Growing Up World Growing Up Get

The focus of 'Flower' is emotion and to make you feel peaceful.

Flower Focus Feel You Peaceful Make

One of the risks for anybody in the lending business is that being conservative can harm your competitiveness.

Business Risks Conservative Being

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

Women Poetry Mad Write Something

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

War Strategy Enemy Attack Supreme

I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two journals. It's a great thing to do as a mother - you forget a lot as you go along, but reading over what you've written brings all the memories back.

Mother Memories Children Great You

Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics.

Past Ethics Surprise Media Country

Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

Talent Effort Situation Tragedy

You've got to have a good public education system so small-business owners, when they locate to an area, are confident their kids are getting the best education possible. I feel strongly about local control in school districts.

Education Good Best School Control

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

William Vickrey

Government Budget Real Point Seek

Every Fourth of July, our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother country and to challenge the admiration of the world. But what a pitiful detail of grievances does this document present in comparison with the wrongs which our slaves endure!

William Lloyd Garrison

Mother Challenge Detail World Endure

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