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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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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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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I was an American citizen, and I had as many rights as anyone else.
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I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
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In public, when my kids have not been behaving great - because that's life, my kids are not perfect, okay - I've noticed other people watching me. And I felt judged, because I'm obviously in the public eye. So that's been hard.
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There's always great things that champions do. It can be inside fighting, this person uses his range well, this person has a great right hand - anytime you fight a champion, there's multiple things that they do well, and you have to try to take those strengths away.
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What a great privilege it is to be here.
