Douglas Conant Quotes

You must bring great resolve to your work. It's not all a bed of roses.

Douglas Conant

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WorkGreatRosesYouBedResolve

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

John Dalberg-Acton

ControlPreventionLibertyOthers

The second book was probably the result of the relationship I was in at the time. We were only going to be compatible for a minute, and I think we both knew it. It's like how you can be a different person on vacation, but you know all along you're just visiting that mindset.

Andrea Seigel

RelationshipTimeVacationBookYou

I think it's refreshing when the people you're looking up to mess up just like you do, but somehow, things, in their own way, work out.

Melanie Scrofano

WorkPeopleLookingThinkYouWay

To help enable the kind of science Hubble is performing makes my life worthwhile.

John M. Grunsfeld

LifeScienceMy LifeHelpKind

I'm not interested in doing something edgy with a capital E just so everyone knows, 'Oh, OK, now he's showing us he can do edgy.'

Tom Hanks

DoingNowEdgyEveryoneSomething

Pick your enemies carefully or you'll never make it in Los Angeles.

Rona Barrett

YouLos AngelesNeverEnemiesYour

For me, it's a real shock to see American mainstream films. I can't see these films because it's always the same thing to me. This is very American. Violence is very American, and I can't understand these films. Why do they use violence? To show what? Masculinity? To show fear? Defense? What are you showing with all this violence?

Javier Camara

FearMeAmericanViolenceYouWhy

The ocean is 20 minutes away. Nature surrounds me 24/7. I wake up to the sounds of birds chirping. I also love that I can go out to dinner in jeans and flip-flops.

Jordana Brewster

NatureLoveOceanMeDinnerBirds

The people I choose to work with, I work with because I'm already impressed with them, you know?

Jon Brion

WorkPeopleYouChooseKnowBecause

I work in musical theater because people keep writing quality stories in the genre, and I'm really all about investing in a piece that says something about our current time, that is, a reflection on who we are today.

Brandon Victor Dixon

WorkTodayTimeReflectionQuality

You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.

Boris Vallejo

WorkMeDoingClothesEnjoyYou

John Lee Hancock is someone that I had admired from afar. I think he is a wonderful director... in the tradition I would say both of Clint Eastwood and Frank Capra.

Alison Owen

ThinkSomeoneTraditionSayDirector

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