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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The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.
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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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I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Mathematics and art are quite different. We could not publish so many papers that used, repeatedly, the same idea and still command the respect of our colleagues.
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The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts are the ever recurring decisive forces, the chief points in the process of history.
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Writing teaches writing. Your writing will teach you how to write if you work hard enough and have enough faith.
