Raymond Bonner Quotes
I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
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Our life is full of empty space.
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Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.
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Timid salesmen have skinny kids.
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It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education – aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness – presented alienated forms of our true historical being.
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O Banner!Not houses of peace are you, nor any nor all of their prosperity; if need be you shall have every one of those houses to destroy them;You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money;May they stand fast then? Not an hour, unless you, above them and all, stand fast.
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Although individual states have primary responsibility for conducting fair and impartial elections, the FBI becomes involved when paramount federal interests are affected or electoral abuse occurs.
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'Superbad' was such a personal movie.
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I'm creative in my own life. I'm creative when I step out the door. I'm creative when I pick up a glass. Do you know what I mean? I'm one of those dreadful people who probably should have been born at the end of the 19th century and been in cafe society. That would have suited me fine.
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I love Salma Hayek; we've been friends for a really long time. I admire how she has come such a long way and always remained grounded and who she is. She never compromises to follow her vision, and she is loyal. Such qualities only mark the great stars.
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I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.
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I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.
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When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.
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I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.
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There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction...For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.
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You've got to give more than you take.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.
