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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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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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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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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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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Tea with us became more than an idealisation of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life. The beverage grew to be an excuse for the worship of purity and refinement, a sacred function at which the host and guest joined to produce for that occasion the utmost beatitude of the mundane.
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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
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To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
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Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.
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'The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.'
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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.
