Connie Brockway Quotes
The sound of the surf mingled with the wind rushing in his ears, and still it did not drown out the sound of her voice: “Can you think of any reason why I should not stay?” A thousand. None of them good enough.
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Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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I am really precise about who I want to work with and, no matter the timeline, I push to get what I think would be cool.
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I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
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The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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My job is to look out on that world that I write about and be as honest as I possibly can about that world. If that's optimistic and uplifting, OK. If it's not, OK.
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I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.
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I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.
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So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor; it feels very much closed in for various reasons.
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In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
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There was a woman in Elizabeth I's court that happened to have the same family name as me.
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If I had done a Disney movie nobody would care. They would not care. You may say oh, I grew up and I loved that movie, that was really super, but you wouldn’t care. People really will stop and talk to me about deeper issues, which I am excited to participate in.
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My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.
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My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
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If I'm not complaining, I'm not having a good time, hah hah!
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I often think that people who write a lot about poverty need to go and spend more time with poor people.
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The sound of the surf mingled with the wind rushing in his ears, and still it did not drown out the sound of her voice: “Can you think of any reason why I should not stay?” A thousand. None of them good enough.
