Connie Britton Quotes
The thing about taking risks is, if it's really a risk, you really can fail. It's only a pretend risk if you really can't fail.
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I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to.
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We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
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I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old.
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One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.
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Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
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I'm very passionate.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
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I do not see the process of blogging as a separate thing from creating art. This is in part why I do not like to be known for being a 'blogger,' as this is just one form of output for creative ideas.
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Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.
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'She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,' cried the young Student; 'but in all my garden there is no red rose.'
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I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind of a prude.
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The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment because it is so final. The human life is ended and the executed person is deprived of the opportunity to change, to restore the harm done or compensate for it.
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The thing about taking risks is, if it's really a risk, you really can fail. It's only a pretend risk if you really can't fail.
