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T. C. Boyle Quotes

I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Fun World Have Fun Worry Jokes Tell

As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.

Snow Day Past Queen Writing Present

People who aren't perhaps that into sport are going to be following me and wanting to be part of the Olympics. That definitely does bring added pressure but as an athlete the Olympics are the ultimate competition.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Competition People Me Pressure Bring

I'm no saint, and I don't want to come across like one, but there is not a day that goes by that I'm not doing something for someone else with a very large chunk of my time.

Time Day Someone Doing Want Come

We had all this kind of freedom and 'get out of your head' kind of stuff and at the same time, we were trying to establish ourselves in the business. These two things are really difficult to bring together.

Business Freedom Time Together Kind

Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it conveyed such genuine enthusiasm for cooking that I was moved for the first time to slap down cold cash for a collection of recipes.

Time Cooking Child Cold Generation

Life is full of contrasts.

A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.

Life Change Experience Song Feel

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

New York New Actor Coming Theater

I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.

Vacation Back Write Weekends Floor

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

Wife Woman Enough Dead Old Caught

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

History Great Been Lot Songwriters

Really, even in this whole Obama initiative, and everything that's going on with the economy, the only way to jump start it is we have to give each other opportunity. That's the only way to make it work.

Work Opportunity Start Jump Way

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