Bonnie Friedman Quotes
Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.
Quotes to Explore
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least the 1970s.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.
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I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.
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In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.
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I can't hold on very long Forgive me, pretty baby, but I always take the long way home
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Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.
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I knew when I got into this business I couldn't have it both ways: I could live the playboy lifestyle, which is not a bad thing to do, or have a traditional family life, which is how I grew up. And that was more important to me.
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I think a lot of the time there isn't such a black-and-white difference between what's a platform and what's an app. It's really just like the most important apps become platforms.
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I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.
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Attending ComicCon for 'Arrow' was so much fun! Seeing the fans excited gets me excited and feels really good.
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The disappearance of Israel as a Zionist project, through war, cultural exhaustion or demographic momentum, is... plausible... Many Israelis see the demise of the country as not just possible, but probable.
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God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others.
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I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.
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Fiction structures an experience for the reader to live through. ... That is why people read: to have experiences.
