Cressida Bonas Quotes
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Better to be disliked than pitied.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.
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I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.
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We are in an industry where, unfortunately, there is very limited scope for female-oriented roles. If we don't have options, how can we pick and choose roles?
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You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
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I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.
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I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.
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I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.
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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
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I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.
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In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.
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You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.
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On one hand, my gender has never been an issue. The issue has always been what's on the page. But the reality is, an awful lot of women fought an awful lot of battles to get me to that place.
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I've never had the passion of wanting to be the next Monica or Beyonce or anything like that.
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Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.
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I'm going to keep it real gully with you; the first two months, I wanted to give him back. I expected someone to come and save me because after you have the baby, nobody cares about you anymore. Nobody cares if you sleep, nobody cares if you eat. It's just you and this all-consuming thingy!
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Dad thanks for leaning in by helping me become a role model for young girls.
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The worse the man, the better the soldier.
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I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.
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I just love being in the arts.
