Bonnie Friedman Quotes
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
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One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
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Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.
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I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
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What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.
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My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.
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It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
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It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.
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I know people who have gone into career death spins, and that's something you're always aware of as a writer.
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We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
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I find that the kinds of music I'm drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.
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And come he slow, or come he fast,It is but Death who comes at last.
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I realize that lawyers are brought up (probably from small children) to think that 'technically true' is what matters, but when you make public PR statements, they should be more than 'technically' true. They should be honest. There's a big f*cking difference.
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Find some fun way to get a little more oil on your hands or mud on your boots. Sometimes, that's what it takes to take down some of the really big problems.
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It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing.
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Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.
