Constance Zimmer Quotes
I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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I'll tell you something, and this is true: I've never been able to write a film which I didn't respect. I just can't do it. I'm very happy about all the films I haven't done.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with 'Glee,' there's no element of competition. No one's trying to dance better than anyone. But there's that added pressure of, 'So many people are going to watch 'Glee' this week. If I don't nail this dance, I look like an idiot.'
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.
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I have a biology degree, okay?
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My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
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If you work out 20 minutes a day in some way, you're going to see changes.
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I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
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A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don't offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk managers or parents who parent like risk managers.
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It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.
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In the short stories - if I can make a very lumpy contrast - in the short stories I feel like the lives of the people have a kind of prior desperation and a prior need and my longing is for the story and their lives to somehow come together, even if not finally or forever, to face something; and it felt like a lot of the time with the essays I was wading into situations where there was an assumption of finality of understanding, and I felt like I could wade into any understood moment and tear it apart and make it fall apart.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.
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I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, but they still are super confident, and that's more what I've been attracted to is the confidence and the sense of humor.
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I think I brush the surface of being involved politically with the issues and the personalities in the news.
