Bonnie Hunt Quotes
My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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Well, for one, I don't judge my characters.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep's or Kate Winslet's. It's just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.
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At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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I'm very unorganized.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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The long-term value proposition for cellphone companies isn't just voice conversation - it's transfer of data.
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There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.
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We have an energy about us that's so unique and so intense, and it's because of how much power we have in us as individuals, being confident, harnessing that power, and wanting to share that with other women.
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Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.
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One Indian-inspired favourite of mine is mashed potato mixed with lemon juice, breadcrumbs, coriander and chilli, shaped into patties, fried and served with chutney and yoghurt.
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If I can iron out my accent, it opens up another world of possible jobs. Whereas if you have that very strong European accent, it leaves you always being cast as the Hungarian maid or the stripper or whatever. I have voice lessons, and my coach has given me different tongue-twisters to rehearse at home.
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My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.
