Lisa Bonet Quotes
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
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Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!
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The beating heart of your story... that's not what shows up in a trailer. The other stuff is what shows up in a trailer, because that's what gets people in to the seats, and that's how studios make their money.
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On 'Game of Thrones,' I remember shooting in Croatia, and by lunchtime we'd see photos of what we'd shot online and think, 'My God - people really care.'
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Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.
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The government should not pick up every single bit of healthcare to where literally 60 percent of every dollar is just in your last 60 days of life. We should be more balanced than that and give people a chance to understand what the government should and should not pay for.
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I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball.
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My life is art. Its how I express God.
