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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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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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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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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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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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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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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In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.
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And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.
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I've trained myself to find time to exercise relaxation of the body. I have these programs - I just listen to the instructions, and they're simple. Sometimes you just hold your hand tight and keep your breath - you hold it, hold it, feel all the tension, and then relax.
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I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.
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I've had paranoid panic attacks.
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Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.
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Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.
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In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "No lie will last forever." We have to work at removing lies from our own hearts. And on the national level, we do this not because we blame our country, but because we love it.
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While the things I do kill me, they just tell me to relax
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Perhaps the secret to making a billion dollars in real estate is that there is no secret.
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Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.
