Bonita Granville Quotes
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You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
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I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
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A laugh is a terrible weapon.
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You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
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Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!
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I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.
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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
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I try to keep it in a very low impact - I have scoliosis, so exercises can be really hard on my back, whether it's too much running, jumping or boxing. I'll do those things once in a while, but I keep it mostly Pilates, resistance-band based, softer exercises that build strength from inside the muscle.
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I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway.
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I'm really influenced by Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.
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I've had dreams - there were three things I wanted to do during my career. I did them during my first year of Grand Prix.
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He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.
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I think every intelligent woman should have a career.
