Connie Sellecca Quotes

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie her shoelaces on her own, drilling multiplication tables with Cindy, practicing piano every day with her. No one expected Cindy to get a Ph.D.! But my mom wanted her to be the best she could be, within her limits.

The great thing about performance capture is you can go off, and then, without changing costume, you can become another character.

And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character.

I think New Orleans is the best city in the United States.

The most important characteristic that has allowed me to succeed is confidence. I have always been comfortable in my own skin, and even when I was just starting out in my career, had the strength and self-assurance to ask tough questions and push for answers.

I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space.

I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.

By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.

Liberals like using government to solve problems in OUR country and conservatives are using our government to solve problems in OTHER countries.

I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.

My dad was in the military. It was difficult sometimes, because he would have to be away a lot, and we would have to move around a lot. Trying to adapt to new schools and new places can be really tough.

I condemn all statements - made in sincerity or jest - that threaten or suggest the use of violence against the president of the United States or any other public official. Such rhetoric cannot and will not be tolerated.

Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.

I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare.

I'm an unlucky charm... don't go anywhere with me.

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.