Bonnie Hunt Quotes
Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, their supporting characters, even if it's a doorman with two lines, always seem three-dimensional. To me, that's a sign of good storytelling.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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I am a just man.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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Curbing pollution and global warming takes a global cooperative mindset. Development aid needs to be rethought in this context.
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I'm a broadcaster who happens to be liberal, and not the other way around.
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There is an idea that at some point in your career, you 'make it.' I understand the theory of 'making it.' I don't exactly think that it's the best way to look at it.
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Washington was not just a city of marble buildings and smoke-filled rooms and power brokers, but also a town full of people who do care about each other, in good times and bad.
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There's this kind of war on running - people keep telling you you'll get hurt, get injured, that you need orthotics, that you need go to a special running store before you try it. There's this totally misconceived notion that it's hard to do, and it's not.
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Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, their supporting characters, even if it's a doorman with two lines, always seem three-dimensional. To me, that's a sign of good storytelling.
