Connie Brockway Quotes
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.
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I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.
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The Church had its own law code and its own courts of law which were supreme over the clergy, and had large rights of jurisdiction even over the laity, so that it could develop and give effect to its own ideas of law and right.
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It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.
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The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep, They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.
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I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.
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I can't tell a story about a working-class family on a premium channel that you have to pay to get.
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There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.
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We have to ask if it is once again the summer of 1914. Small acts of terror in the Middle East, in South Asia, could lead to cataclysm as they did in Sarajevo.
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The debut film came much easier to me than it would have if I was an outsider.
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Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.
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If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud.
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I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.
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With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.
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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
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Nothing seduces vanity like the word "help".
