Beth Broderick Quotes
Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.'
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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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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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.
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Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.
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I had a hard enough time in high school, fitting in without having to keep up with Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook - all these ways you have to keep up your image.
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Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.
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Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.'
