Connie Britton Quotes
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For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.
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When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.'
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It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
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There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
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As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
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I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.
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I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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At the end of the day, there are people out there that want to see you fail.
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So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.
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There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.
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When self-delusion and self-flattery enter the mind-set of a product team and the metrics they judge themselves by, like the first plague rat coming onto a ship, the end is practically preordained.
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.
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Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value.
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We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.
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Sometimes my favorite directors are the ones I literally want to punch in the nose.