Vanna Bonta Quotes
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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I always say to my students, 'If you can do anything other than writing and be happy, then you should.'
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Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.
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She looked like a woman talking about astronomical parallax, and that made her brilliantly beautiful.
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I remember I'd come home from fifth, sixth grade, and I'd watch 'Saved by the Bell' and be like, 'I hope my high school experience is like that.' And it totally wasn't. It sucked.
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Thirty-six million / miles of whispering welcome. / Mars, you called us home.
