Bertrand Bonello Quotes
If you have someone too famous, it's difficult to make a group, because you see just her.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
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Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.
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The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony.
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I didn't believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque.
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We aren't going to let our first investment be the best.
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I keep everything that's private private.
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If you think advantage lies in resources, then you think the best educational system is the one that spends the most money.
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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With a famous name, you have to work that much harder to get the part.
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Why do the police need to know where I am? In the hands of a benevolent government, they could be looking after your interests, but what if the next government isn't so benevolent?
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Writing for me is not a premeditated act. It just happens - characters keep coming out of nowhere and doing things I never expected them to do. The most persistent and most productive of these has been Paul Christopher, whom I didn't expect to see again after he appeared in 'The Miernik Dossier.'
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If you have someone too famous, it's difficult to make a group, because you see just her.
