Cressida Bonas Quotes
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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The harder I work, the luckier I get.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
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I tend to spend a lot of time building characters that the reader will believe in and sympathize with.
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Collider is a company that I formed with a movie producer, Alisa Tager, and we just wanted to create a place where writers could come and develop their ideas without a regard to limitations of form.
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You don't have to be African American to really enjoy 'Frisky Business'. But as far as being black, a lot of people in New York have been stopped and frisked, so that hits home for them.
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I'm not really one of those people who's always out. I like being at home.
