Parker Posey Quotes
I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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During a transformation, it's understandable to be hesitant about moving too fast, especially at the outset.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.
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I realize that every time we discuss a job placement and look at a list of both male and female candidates, there's a question that comes up pretty much all the time for the woman: 'Will she know how to assert herself?' It's not meant to be malicious. It's more, 'Will she manage to take leadership of the team you want to entrust to her?'
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It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.
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I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.
