Jo Bonner Quotes
Nearly two weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, and while we are still dealing with the tremendous devastation - and will be for quite some time - we are also seeing increased signs of recovery and help in our region.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
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What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
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The European Union and its member states continue and will continue, as the nuclear deal is implemented, to have open channels with Iran.
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Illicit weapons have always been available to those who can afford them, but they have not generally been the latest state-of-the-art equipment, which requires experience and expertise to use.
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A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.
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I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.
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You're lucky if you find something that makes you feel like yourself; that's the one time that you feel like you know who you are. Most people are struggling to find that out all the time.
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When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.
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Nearly two weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, and while we are still dealing with the tremendous devastation - and will be for quite some time - we are also seeing increased signs of recovery and help in our region.
