Bonnie Hammer Quotes
I basically hit the deck running as soon as I wake up and don't turn my brain off till long after the lights are out.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
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The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.
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The success of 'Scrubs' allowed me to pursue anything I felt passionately about without having to worry about money. It allowed me to spend my summer work shopping my show at a nonprofit theater.
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If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.
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I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
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It is our right to stay here and we will stay and stand up for what belongs to us as American citizens, because they can't say that we haven't had patience.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I basically hit the deck running as soon as I wake up and don't turn my brain off till long after the lights are out.
