Michael Bond Quotes
I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965.
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
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Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
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Your mind is nirvana.
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I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.
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You cannot go far alone. You enjoy your journey better if you have people by your side.
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In terms of the timeline, 'The Force Awakens' came out in December of 2015. I got the role in November of 2015. I was auditioning and waiting to hear back when their marketing machine was everywhere. It's like you're going for something that's so high stakes, and you try to remind yourself, 'Okay, stop thinking about it,' and it's everywhere.
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I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.
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We women are fools to do so much for the man we love. And we forget to stand for ourselves.
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
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Paradise is too perfect for humanity.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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You know, it's always the same. I've clowned in 81 countries. People hunger for love, and clowning is a trick to get love close. As a clown I can do things that people are too frightened of Love to allow you to do.
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I like people. Listen, if you're a hotelier, if you're a creative person, and you're working with the things that I do, then you have to like people; otherwise, you simply can't get anywhere.
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I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudolf Nureyev and Ted Heath, and ended up a senior cameraman with my own crew. I'd had my first short story published in 1947, and when my writing really started to take off I decided to go freelance, and eventually left the BBC in 1965.
