Bonnie Greer Quotes
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
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If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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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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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
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If Shanghai wants to be an international cultural center, they have to do something about that. The reason I left is that I wanted to explore what ballet is all about, and if I had stayed put, that wouldn't have happened.
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I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy.
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When you're in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn't necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don't have any rights; it just doesn't progress along the same timeline.
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Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.
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There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.
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I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.
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I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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You know how macho boys get when they're all together? Well, the set of 'Desperado' was like that. They were all trying to put me down, saying, 'Bring on the stuntwoman, Salma can't do that.' But I did everything.
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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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Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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Settings are obviously important - and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of the story you're writing. But the real key to success lies in finding the right characters to carry that story.
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All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in this there is something always a little mad.
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From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
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I was writing, writing all the time, in my head, looking out at the world.
