Connie Willis Quotes
'That makes no sense,' I said.'This is the Victorian era,' she said. 'Women didn’t have to make sense.'
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out.
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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It is fun to smash guitars.
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If you're going to be an entertainer, entertain thoroughly. If you're going to make a scary movie, scare people well.
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Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.
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It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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'That makes no sense,' I said.'This is the Victorian era,' she said. 'Women didn’t have to make sense.'
