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T. C. Boyle Quotes

Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 2, 1948

Topics

Life Purpose Absurd None Tragic Any

I believe that God's dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don't mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you're planted. But I don't have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

God Money College Believe Mindset

Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity.

Opportunity Sports Fun Winning Doing

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.

People Writing Think Hard Air Out

A good boxing competition gives one the sight of fine men in their prime, trained to the ounce, showing the highest skill, pluck and endurance in carrying out their attack and defence under strict rules of fair play and good temper.

Robert Baden-Powell

Good Men Competition Rules Play

Oh God, I feel hugely privileged to have not only been a part of 'Game of Thrones,' but also to have a catchphrase. It's a lovely thing.

God Game Feel Lovely Only Been

I couldn't stand not controlling my own product from how it's manufactured to how it's sold.

Stand Product My Own Own Controlling

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

Joseph Jefferson

I Am Me Worry Lost Now Poor

There's not a lot of pictorial evidence from the Highlands, because only the very wealthy had their portraits painted - but there is one well-known painting of the two sons of the Duke of Argyll, wearing tartan.

Painting Two Evidence Because Only

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Change Welcome You Rule Must Ruler

The thing about theater that always and still kind of makes me edgy is that you work and work and work and work, and then you're just in performance mode, and then you have to just be on; the work is done, and then you just have to do it over and over again, so you're just constantly at that performance level.

Work Me Performance You Done Kind

My mom used to be concerned 'cause I would never go outside. And when I'd go outside, I'd have friends, but I just was always in the house listening to music, practicing DJing all the time. Then my uncle got a keyboard, drum machine, so I'd just be in the house at 12, 13, just, like, messing up his presets. And my mom was like, 'My son is strange.'

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Music Son Time Mom Listening Uncle

There's something about doing Shakespeare with a single gender, whether it is all-male or all-female, that opens up certain possibilities. You are able to throw the behavior of the men into a particular relief and be playful within a slightly larger-than-life way with it.

Men Behavior Doing Possibilities You

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