T. C. Boyle Quotes

I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.

T. C. Boyle

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LifeWorkHopeLightFeetBurn

I never say someone is powerful.

Jimmy Iovine

SomeonePowerfulSayNever

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

Joe Slovo

WithoutSystemExistBeenIdeology

I don't think Donald Barthelme would have minded being called a confusing writer. Confusion was a favorite subject for him in his essays and reviews, and it's enacted in his fiction in a mishmash of dizzying incongruities.

Joanna Scott

ThinkHimConfusionFictionBeing

I remember as a kid, my mom had to trade canned food to buy my brother and me chocolate because we were living in Serbia at the time, and there were sanctions. If I catch myself complaining about going to a red carpet event, I say, 'Shut up.'

Andreja Pejic

TimeMyselfFoodRedBrotherMom

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

Sofia Coppola

FamilyBusinessCreativeImportant

When we had free time in the Olympic Village, we got massages and rested while watching Netflix.

Simone Biles

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I grew up watching Lee Trevino, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer.

Molly Sims

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In Australia, it's people from Asian countries who most often recognise me. There are often people just looking at me at the supermarket, like they're shocked to think I would go to the supermarket.

Miranda Otto

PeopleMeLookingThinkAustralia

I don't have the luxury of sitting around any more. I must have had bags of spare time before I had children, but I don't know what I did with it and I didn't appreciate it. But it's such a terrific trade-off. I don't have time to get a pedicure, but I sure am happy. Who cares if your feet look bad?

Julia Roberts

ChildrenTimeHappyFeetAppreciate

E-books, which made their debut in the 1990s, cut costs even more for both consumer and producer, though as the Internet expanded, those roles became confused.

Joshua Cohen

InternetConfusedMoreProducerCut

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

Jonathan Safran Foer

GreatYouNeverCageArtistsReally

If it weren't for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldn't have any ideas at all.

Donald E. Westlake

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