T. C. Boyle Quotes

It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

T. C. Boyle

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I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?

John Belushi

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I've spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but it's not about flaunting my wealth. I don't have many extravagances but watches are my biggest one. I must have 30 of them now. I've been collecting since the age of nine, when I won a black TAG in a karting event.

Jenson Button

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My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

Andrea Seigel

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The reason people talk about cable cutting is they imagine the price burden will get so high that people won't be able to pay it. They're missing something: that the actual price of the electronic package is going down. They've got their Internet, phone, TV, all of it. Now people are using more and more stuff for less.

Jeff Bewkes

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Eagles rarely fail to catch their prey. They usually kill it quickly by breaking its neck with their powerful claws.

Stephen Kinzer

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I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn't beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that 'Harry Potter' wasn't cool. I wasn't part of the 'Terminator' franchise.

Tom Felton

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I think everybody's always attracted to both sexes. I mean, I think that women are very attractive. I've kissed girls, but everybody experiments. It's part of growing up.

Monica Keena

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In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.

Louis Adolphe Thiers

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I think I am obsessed with Lucie Rie. I love the way she collaborated with Miyake, who for me is probably the most important fashion designer of the 20th century.

Jonathan Anderson

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I can pick good food, but I can't pick a good man.

Debbie Reynolds

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War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

Bruce Jackson

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Brian Tracy

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