Edward Conlon Quotes
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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My first album was completed in three months.
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I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
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It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.
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I still don't know what Episcopalian means.
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It's been great having my little girl. It's like having a workout 24 hours a day. I don't need to go to the gym! I'm chasing after my daughter everywhere she goes.
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Never get involved with a business that you can't really be hands-on - that if your employees quit, you can't run yourself. If I can't cut hair, why open a barbershop?
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.
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When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.
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Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.
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Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,' which often means, 'all by themselves.' Why? They've been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce.
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I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
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We grew up listening to alternative music from the '90s, and there was no shame in being on a major label and still making the music you wanted to make. I feel like rap rock came around and drew a line in the sand, and everybody that was like me ran away from that and started making indie-rock.
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The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire.
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Joy, confidence, and security can't begin until we are able to just be ourselves.
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Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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I'll fly Away took place in the 50's and 60's in America's South, and there are a couple of scenes where me and my friends are supposed to be skinny dipping with these girls.
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Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school.
