Connie Brockway Quotes

Passion is tragedy-in-waiting

Connie Brockway

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• I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Children
  • Hands
  • Reward

• I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Up
  • God
  • Fall

• Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Feel
  • Humor

• I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Choose
  • Now
  • Classical

• I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Movies

• Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Management

• It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Business
  • Day
  • Fight

• Work is what saves you.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Work
  • You
  • Saves

• The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• Well, I don't use the toilet much to pee in. I almost always pee in the yard or the garden, because I like to pee on my estate.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Always
  • Garden
  • Toilet

• Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Good
  • Choice

• I think almost everything about humans and human civilization is explained better by evolution than anything else.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Think
  • Better
  • Evolution

• I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • God
  • Dream
  • Day

• I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Working
  • Kennedy
  • Ted

• For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Cool

• When I moved to L.A. and had my first meeting with my agents, they asked me what I wanted for my career. And I didn't speak English at the time, but I did say, 'I wanna be Ryan Gosling as a woman.' So I got very excited to play opposite him.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • Time
  • Career
  • English

• I went out every single night so I was never alone with my stepfather. At 12, I stopped going on holiday with them. The times I was alone with him I always made sure I was all covered up.

  

  Christine Keeler
  • Up
  • Night
  • Alone

• I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Personal

• To make war, you had to be filled with love, with a vehement passion, exalted, intoxicated, otherwise the whole thing was inhuman and absurd.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • War
  • Passion

• A man is entitled to only one great passion in a lifetime. Whether it’s music or a profession or a woman, everything else pales in its afterglow. The searing shock so changes one’s chemistry that if the object is lost, the experience can never be repeated. Only anticlimax remains.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Great
  • Music
  • Experience

• Passion is tragedy-in-waiting

  

  Connie Brockway
  • Passion
  • Tragedy-in-waiting