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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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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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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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.
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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us
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This mountain, I thought, was like education: The higher you climbed, the farther you could see.
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Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.
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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.'
