Eileen Collins Quotes
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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As a team, we have a lot of work ahead of us in FY16 and beyond, but I am confident that, working together, we will make Microsoft a leader in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.
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I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.
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So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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I always believe that one can't interfere in another's work. Once I start work on any film, I surrender myself completely and blindly follow the director.
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Mostly for social media, Twitter or Instagram becomes so much more fun when you can be boastful and say whatever you want. You can be so full of yourself and ridiculous when you're a heel.
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Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.
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I try to understand the rules and follow them. And I try to make sure that I'm disclosing my obligations.
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I would love to have dinner with Jay-Z and Beyonce. I think we would have a lot to chat about. I like them both so much, and I love them as a couple. I like that they are both at the top of their game - and that they have a mutual respect and admiration for each other.
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Treat the audience with respect and maturity, and have a certain faith in them to catch up.
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Christian Science has always appealed to the middle-classes and the upper middle classes. In part, this is because it requires a certain amount of education to study 'Science and Health' to the degree that Christian scientists do. It's not an easy book to read! It's 700 pages, and it's written in a nineteenth-century manner and diction.
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America needs young people to be inspired to choose sacrifice over greed.
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In my 20s I was such a serious, boring-looking person. I would never do my nails. I never even danced. But I was taught by the women. They had gone through hell, but they would dance and sing. I came to realise I can't argue for a happy world if I am not happy myself.
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Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture involving women. Women don't want to see that, I can tell you for damn sure right now.
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Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?
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Houston, Discovery, wheels are down. We're all happy to be back again.
