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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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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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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I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.
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I follow my heart and my instinct about films and people.
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Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.
