Bonnie L. Oscarson Quotes
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'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.
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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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Women are complicated. We all know that.
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Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction.
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I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it.
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As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
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I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.
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I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.
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From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word stammer. I can't say it myself.
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A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
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Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.
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Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.
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I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are a lot of 'whoah whoa whoahs,' this stadium thing. You're even getting that from some of the 'folk' groups. I can't stand it.
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Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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Just as it sometimes happens that deformed offspring are produced by deformed parents, and sometimes not, so the offspring produced by a female are sometimes female, sometimes not, but male, because the female is as it were a deformed male.
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I do believe that there is a conflict between science and religion ... the spirit or attitude toward the facts is different in religion from what it is in science. The uncertainty that is necessary in order to appreciate nature is not easily correlated with the feeling of certainty in faith.
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First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
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It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.
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The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.
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I never prayed for no money, and I never prayed for no fame. I said, 'I'll take care of that myself. You just keep me healthy and I'll do all I can to try to turn people around, to try to steer 'em in the right direction.' That's the whole trip in life, ya know.
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What a great privilege it is to be here.
