Lisa Bonet Quotes
That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
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President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
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There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'
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In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
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I don't know if my looks will ever get any better, but my pratfalls sure won't.
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I know the benefits of having a really great improv show are amazing because it was this one rare and fleeting thing that was incredible, but the risk just didn't appeal to me. I liked the control of sitting down and writing things.
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When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.
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Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.
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That industry expects you to prove yourself over and over again. Do I stay doing this, or do I raise my daughter and live surrounded by people who love me? Wasn't even really a choice.
