William Boyd
William Boyd
William Boyd, CBEis a British novelist and screenwriter...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 March 1952
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We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.
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Human beings are interested in the human condition.
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Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.
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I stood there in the kitchen, watching her staring across the meadow still searching for her nemesis and I thought, suddenly, that this is all our lives - this is the one fact that applies to us all, that makes us what we are, our common mortality, our common humanity. One day someone is going to come and take us away: you don't need to have been a spy, I thought, to feel like this.
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The governor has asked us to be open-minded about this. I think the governor is so open-minded that his brains fell out.
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We had positive plays on offense in the end of the second quarter that carried into the second half. We will continue to work to get better.
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We have criticized these, but the real problem, the really irrational part of what is proposed, is the material on internal accounting control.
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I don't know where you heard the rumors (of annexation), ... I don't know where they got started. In any meeting I've ever been to, we have never mentioned annexation at all. It's never been mentioned.
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But that relaxed version forwarded to the Title IV Subgroup still adds costs to state solvency regulation that aren't needed, based on the insolvency record of mutual insurers.
living
It is probably no exaggeration to say that she is Britain's preeminent living novelist.
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Griffin is a very good team. We made a lot of mistakes early, and they took advantage of them.
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It's strange; when I was younger and people would ask, 'Where are you from?', I'd say, 'West Africa', which was odd because I'm obviously not African, but it was my home.
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At a time when there's younger writers starting up and it's inevitable that you're becoming less fashionable, at a time when the industrial pressures apply more and more to books, how do you keep a book you wrote 28 years ago selling well year on year? Because it really is getting harder.
I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths.