Boys Quotes - Page 32

• For the blockbusters, people were always telling me that if you write female protagonists, the boys won't go, so you have to put the boys' stuff in it to get everybody. I write for people from 8 to 80, and that's not easy.

  Linda Woolverton

  Writing, People, Female

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think pirates, like astronauts, particularly for a boy, are always kind of worth thinking about.

  Daniel Handler

  Thinking, Pirate, Kind

  "Lemony Snicket Walks the Plank". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. January, 2015.

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• A lot of people think they can write poetry, and many do, because they can figure out how to line up the words or make certain sounds rhyme or just imitate the other poets they've read. But this boy, he's the real poet, because when he tries to put on paper what he's seen with his heart, he will believe deep down that there are no good words for it, no words can do it, and at that moment he will have begun to write poetry.

  Cynthia Rylant

  Real, Believe, Writing

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• Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman

  Molly Ivins

  White, Black, Rich

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• Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy, Canada is like an intelligent, 35 year old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson.

  Douglas Adams

  Country, Intelligent, Years

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• I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

  Alan Alda

  Views, Want, Firsts

  Alan Alda (2009). “Never Have Your Dog Stuffed”, p.221, Random House

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• The most pleasure any manager can get is seeing everyday boys joining the Club as youngsters and growing into men and giving themselves a better social standing than they could ever have dreamed of previously.

  Jock Stein

  Men, Giving, Everyday

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• As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands?

  Thomas Beecham

  Couple, Brass Bands, Why Not

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• It cannot remain unmentioned that so many poorly equipped boys, and boys who have no talent at all for music, have been accepted into the school to date that the quality of music has necessarily declined and deteriorated. And those who do bring a few precepts with them when they come to school are not ready to be used immediately.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  School, Quality, Talent

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• During the last century a seven-year-old boy, Harry Service, was lost from his family's home in Manitoba and lived for two weeks with a badger in its underground den. When he was found he said that the badger had brought him food several times.

  Sally Carrighar

  Home, Years, Two

  Sally Carrighar (1965). “Wild Heritage”

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• When Michael Jackson, a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich, white woman, married Elvis Presley's daughter the Scientologist. Makes you proud to be an American, dudn't it?

  Molly Ivins

  Daughter, White, Black

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• Like my boy tells me; if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat.

  Terrell Owens

  Smell, Looks, Rats

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• The studio system is kind of an old boys system and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable

  Jane Campion

  Kind, Difficult, Studios

  "Cannes 2012: Why have no female film directors been nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes?" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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• All over the walls of my room are pictures of Peter Pan. I've read everything that Barrie wrote. I totally identify with Peter Pan, the lost boy from Never Neverland.

  Michael Jackson

  Wall, Rooms, Neverland

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• All I can say is that when millions of plastic dolls of you are being sold each day and an equal number of teenage boys are masturbating over you each night, it's bound to do something screwy to your psyche.

  Carrie Fisher

  Teenage, Night, Numbers

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• I think everybody should get married. Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Boys and boys! Girls and girls! Shouldn't we all be entitled to a family-Civil rights baby it's civil rights. It doesn't get any better here in Berkeley I'll tell you that.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Girl, Baby, Thinking

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• Playing for Arsenal at any level is something to be proud of so being in the squad when they won the double and winning the Cup in 1979 was special. The boys were a terrific bunch.

  Sammy Nelson

  Winning, Squad, Special

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• The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Responsibility, Individual, Individual Responsibility

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.276, Pan Macmillan

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• You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.
  You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think.

  Elbert Hubbard

  College, Thinking, Skeptical

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• I wanted to say to Elvis Presley and the country that this is a real decent, fine boy, and wherever you go, Elvis, we want to say we've never had a pleasanter experience on our show with a big name than we've had with you.

  Ed Sullivan

  Country, Real, Names

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• People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.

  Orson Scott Card

  People, Want, Virtue

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus”, p.133, Macmillan

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• My voice as a filmmaker is always about boys searching for their fathers. And not only boys, but all children looking for those figures in their lives.

  Sheldon Candis

  Children, Father, Voice

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• A young man in Bangladesh can't even hold hands with a young woman. Without marriage there is no kissing, no holding hands, no going anywhere. So young boys can only go to the brothels for sex before marriage.

  Michael Glawogger

  Sex, Kissing, Men

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• As an actor, you have to be able to take all sides as well. You have to at least be able to understand things. No bad guy looks in the mirror every morning and says, boy, I'm gonna be a real bad guy this morning. He goes after his own what he's after, just like us good guys. You kind of have to take a stand and, a lot of times, you have to take the writer's stand or the stand of the character this writer has created.

  Michael McKean

  Morning, Real, Character

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to learn how to be a father before you even become a father, from a very young age. It's necessary to override what we're told in society a father should be, like if your son falls and scrapes his knee, you got to be tough. Baseball and all that are cool, but it's the tenderness and interactions that are really important. Boys are different; we have to impart that sensibility and that tenderness to them.

  Malik Yusef

  Baseball, Jobs, Father

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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