Edith Konecky Quotes

If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.

Edith Konecky

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• In combat sports, personalities are what draw.

  

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• Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

  

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• I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.

  

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• I know the consequences of my decisions. I've said no to the biggest of brands. So when I say no to something, I know how much business I will lose out on.

  

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• No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.

  

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• I do expect a lot from myself, but it's also a balance of being... positive and also pushing yourself.

  

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• I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.

  

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• Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.

  

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• There are a lot of times where, filming 'It Follows,' I'm fighting against a guy dressed in a green suit for special effects, and I'm just like, 'No. There's no way this is going to be pulled off.'

  

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• The next step for me is not 'The Tonight Show.' That's a job for Jimmy Fallon. I'm way too divisive for a show like that.

  

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• I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.

  

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• Arguably, it was the introduction of international non-proliferation treaties in the late '80s that finally led to the missiles being removed from Greenham Common.

  

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• It's all about learning your craft and honing it in and really paying attention to people who are doing it and what their advice is. It's like anything: it takes years and years and years. A lot of it comes down to work ethic.

  

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• I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I've got to change a flat tire.

  

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• It's not imperative that I graduate in four years, and it's not imperative that I get all A's.

  

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• It's not about how much you make: it's about how good the quality is. You'll be better off as a company making fewer things and concentrating on those and how you bring those to market... in a very less cluttered way, even though the marketplace is more cluttered.

  

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• Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.

  

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• I know intimately the struggle of trying to live your life and be yourself while feeling the pressure of an entire community on your shoulders.

  

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• I was in the seventh grade when I first began to identify as trans and express my gender identity as a girl. My social transition began with growing my hair and wearing clothes and makeup that made me feel like Destiny's Fourth Child.

  

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• I left 'Dr Who' after 18 months, as my character was going nowhere. In truth, I wished I had never gone into it. Afterwards, all the scripts that came my way were for 15-year olds.

  

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• The first two actors we cast were Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. Because we started so highbrow, we were able to get anyone. Plus, some of these people have children, and their kids love 'X-Men.' They'll do it because of them - that's our little extra ace in the hole.

  

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• For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.

  

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• The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

  

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• If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.

  

  Edith Konecky
  • Grandma
  • Ethnic