Bono (Paul David Hewson) Quotes
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All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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You get pigeonholed. Some people are film stars, and some are theatre stars who do one-off telly. Somehow, I get into long-running series.
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The words walked right out of my mouth.
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
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I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a 'Tier 2' city may view a 'Tier 1' city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns.
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The one thing that has helped sustain my career as an actress and a comedian is that people generally view me as fundamentally stupid.
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Music can change the world because it can change people.
