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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You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening.
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I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.
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Netflix is so amazing because they take chances. They'll take a risk, be edgy, be quirky.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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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.
