Bonnie McFarlane Quotes
My sister might be dumb, but that doesn't make her all that different from the rest of us. She's just like any other American. Except she's Canadian. And retarded.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.
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If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.
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We learn by taking action and seeing whether it works or not.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
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I want to make people laugh.
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Good movies are what I wait my whole life for.
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For me, if I have the choice between an extra 45 minutes in bed or getting up at 4:30 A.M. to go to the gym, I will always choose bed.
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If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning.
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Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.
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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
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I liked to dye my hair as a teenager. I dyed it a lot of different colours: blue, red, pink.
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I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either.
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I get treated like a princess in India. It is like a different world.
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Working is a great distraction technique.
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'Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.
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My sister might be dumb, but that doesn't make her all that different from the rest of us. She's just like any other American. Except she's Canadian. And retarded.
