Quotes
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John Boyne
"He suddenly became convinced that if he didn’t do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he knew it he would be wondering round the streets having fights with himself and inviting domestic animals to social occasions too." --
John Boyne
#Fighting Quotes
#Animal Quotes
#Mind Quotes
“There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness”
“Everyone sort of feels alienated at that point, so it's hard to say whether I felt like that because everyone does or because I was so focused on acting [since the age of 8].”
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“Not everybody can like what I do, and if you feel that somebody is coming up closer to you and starting the rivalry and everything, you maybe change your position to him.”
“Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.”
“I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues”
“In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.”
“Mom, thank you. Mr. Palmer, my father I never had, thank you for teaching me what it is to be a man.”
“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.”