T. C. Boyle Quotes

Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.

T. C. Boyle

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I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.

Jim Carroll

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There are parts of New Zealand that I absolutely fell in love with that I will miss going back to, but I kind of think that is the part that can continue and will continue on. I don't imagine I'll stop going back to New Zealand, because I feel part of the fabric there, really.

Andy Serkis

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I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.

Amy Carlson

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You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

Stanley Crouch

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I love words, but I also love finding out that there is a word for something that you've experienced but didn't know there was a word for. Like 'toothpack' - that is a word for when you eat biscuits or cookies and you get that annoying layer of chewed substance on your molars that you kind of have to pick out.

Mary Roach

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You get respect when you give respect. That's how you get respect.

Michael Nutter

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I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them!

Luke Evans

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My mission is to get on the stage and say, 'Listen, I'm a woman, I'm free, I'm a mother, I'm a lover, I'm a friend; I'm shattered by men most of the time, but I'll keep falling in love with them because it's the most thrilling thing in the world; that's what makes me human.'

Lou Doillon

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Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much.

Lois Lowry

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So basketball has always taken me places that I could have never imagined.

Jaylen Brown

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As you know, I spent 30 years of my life in the private sector.

Donald Evans

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There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.

Christopher Lee

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