Bonnie Hunt Quotes
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One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.
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We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.
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That's why I talk about the breast cancer: because I want women - and everyone - to stay on top of things and get checked. I know how scary it can be. When I dealt with it, I was like, 'Oh my God.' And I have so many other friends who have gone through it or have suffered a loss.
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Thankfully, gratefully, cancer did not get the best of me.
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Sometimes leaders slide from the role of freedom fighter into the presidency, which they may be unsuited for, but everyone accepts it until they hit the bump in the road.
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You gain a certain maturity from being a nurse in a cancer ward.
