Bonnie Friedman Quotes
Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.
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When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
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If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
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Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren't careers supposed to culminate in a role like that? And because I'm a big fat geek, as long as there's stuff I'm excited about - and isn't that really the definition of geek? - there'll always be roles I'd love to play.
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I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.
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There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
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You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.
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I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.
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Depeche Mode have never got over their teenage awkwardness with each other. We're still like that. Mates but not mates. That awkwardness is there, only now we have families and kids.
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There is a difference between being a hacker and the "socially inadequate computer geek" vision of the press. It's definitely true that there is a lot of overlap. A lot of good hackers are, however, members of the human race and know what is going on in the real world.
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If you look at a lot of people's careers, the first couple of movies, usually, are the most embarrassing.
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Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.
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Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.
