Connie Brockway Quotes
Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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When someone holds a knife to your throat it's easy to be scared. It's not hard to imagine what it would be like.
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Playing King George, for me, was a lesson in stillness and timing.
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One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.
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The writers job is to get naked, To hide nothing. To look away from nothing. To look at it. To not blink. To be not embarrassed or shamed of it. Strip it down and lets get down to where the blood is, the bone is. Instead of hiding it with clothes and all kinds of other stuff, luxury!
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I don't know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They've only been around, for God's sake, for the last hundred years... I think that it's the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It's the old sitting around the fire, you know.
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I like to watch the news, because I don't like people very much and when you watch the news... if you ever had an idea that people were really terrible, you could watch the news and know that you're right.
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Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.
