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Daily Inspiration Quote by Lara Flynn Boyle

"You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that"

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It lands like a compliment with a blade inside it: yes, you can curate a life where everyone applauds you, but that applause has an expiration date. Lara Flynn Boyle is talking about the seduction of the bubble, the way fame and money let you outsource discomfort. Staff, friends, even lovers can become a paid echo chamber, smoothing your edges and narrating your day back to you as success. For a while it feels like self-care. Then reality starts billing you for the fantasy.

The power of the line is its slow pivot from choice to consequence. “You can” sounds permissive, almost breezy, like a lifestyle tip. “Only around people” hints at a kind of social starvation: no friction, no dissent, no mirror that doesn’t flatter. The final turn - “they’re going to have to be lying” - refuses the comforting idea that constant affirmation is harmless. It frames praise as a resource that gets depleted when it’s demanded on schedule.

In the context of Hollywood, it’s also a warning about what celebrity does to feedback loops. When your image becomes a product, the people around you have incentives to protect the product, not tell the truth. Boyle’s subtext isn’t just “be humble.” It’s sharper: if you require everyone to find you “wonderful,” you’re training them to perform, and eventually you’ll confuse their performance for love, or for accuracy. The line punctures the glamour of being adored by pointing out how quickly adoration turns into maintenance.

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Boyle, Lara Flynn. (2026, January 15). You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/you-can-get-through-your-whole-day-only-around-147470/

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Boyle, Lara Flynn. "You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/you-can-get-through-your-whole-day-only-around-147470/.

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"You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/you-can-get-through-your-whole-day-only-around-147470/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.

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Lara Flynn Boyle

Lara Flynn Boyle (born March 24, 1970) is a Actress from USA.

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