Bonnie Bedelia Quotes

When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of intestinal operations, and was in the hospital for nearly a year. So the four of us teenagers lived by ourselves in the apartment without a guardian.

Bonnie Bedelia

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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

Salman Rushdie
- Country
- Society
- Free
I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.

Aasif Mandvi
- People
- Up
- Work
I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.

Nancy Marchand
- Up
- Real
- School
The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.

Kate Williams
- Real
- Church
- British
There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'

Gary Oldman
- Up
- Parent
- Coffee
I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.

Aaron Ciechanover
- Medical
- Ship
- Physician