Connie Weeks quote: "It's a culture shock for these kids when they move to a country they've never been to. I don't know how they manage. They didn't come here voluntarily. They were brought here. A lot of the students come in not knowing how to speak any English at all."

The lesson is designed to continue to help them improve their comprehension of the English language ...
CONNIE WEEKS

The school administration (at Faust) has been very supportive in getting me the class space I need. ...
CONNIE WEEKS

Its good to eat produce that?s fresh and locally grown and its certainly cheaper in the long run.
CONNIE WEEKS

My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use...
ED WEEKS

I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
ED WEEKS

Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
ED WEEKS

When I was a kid, in a very white boarding school in England in the '90s, I had this sort of mid...
ED WEEKS

I never drove in England. I rode bicycles. So driving is terrifying.
ED WEEKS

When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you ...
ED WEEKS

I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holi...
ED WEEKS

I think lots of men are like that. We sort of get dressed by our girlfriends.
ED WEEKS

My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.
ED WEEKS

We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at bo...
ED WEEKS

Chris Messina is amazing, and he's so serious - he's, like, a proper actor! He's got cra...
ED WEEKS

I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell...
ED WEEKS

To those many millions of you unfamiliar with my work, I play a caddish British doctor in practice w...
ED WEEKS

The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'
ED WEEKS

When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you do...
ED WEEKS

What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?
ED WEEKS

I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense...
ED WEEKS

If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until ...
CLAIRE WEEKS

Happiness is being married to your best friend.
BARBARA WEEKS

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
EDWARD WEEKS

Assassination is an art, milord. And I am the city's most accomplished artist.
BRENT WEEKS

I think the accent is what a lot of people find attractive. If you take the accent away, I'm a v...
ED WEEKS

Your Majesty,” Durzo said gravely. “A man of your stature’s cursing vocabulary ought to extend...
BRENT WEEKS

A man’s greatest treasures are his illusions - Durzo Blint
BRENT WEEKS

Relationships are ropes. Love is a noose. - Durzo Blint
BRENT WEEKS

Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my character...
BRENT WEEKS

Elene gasped and sat up. "Kylar Thaddeus Stern!"
Kylar giggled. "Thaddeus? That's a good one. I...
BRENT WEEKS

I used to run ten miles every other day and eat very little. I was living in London on my own for th...
HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS

'The Black Prism' is a story about two brothers who respect and fear and admire and contend ...
BRENT WEEKS

Boats are historically a very safe mode of transportation, ... Those boats on Lake George - both lar...
CHRIS WEEKS

My parents wanted to be actors. They tried for years but didn't get anywhere. Then Mum got pregn...
HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS

'The Black Prism' is a story of emperors and prisoners and magic set in a Mediterranean, 160...
BRENT WEEKS

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and h...
BRENT WEEKS

From the very start, if there was a spotlight, I would step into it. My parents wondered what to do ...
HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS

If we continue to tap into the basin too much, ocean water can get in and contaminate the clean wate...
CURTIS WEEKS

Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with ...
BRENT WEEKS

Love is not a whim. Love is not a flower that fades with a few fleeting years. Love is a choice wedd...
BRENT WEEKS

I am the stupidest person I have ever met.
BRENT WEEKS

Do you know why you feel destined for something greater?”
“Why?” Kip asked, quiet, hopef...
BRENT WEEKS

Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, bu...
BRENT WEEKS

You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out ...
BRENT WEEKS

The Great Barrier Reef is an icon, and we want to know what we can do to save it. We would not be ab...
SCARLA WEEKS

It clearly proves that the Valley of the Kings is still not exhausted. There are probably more tombs...
KENT WEEKS

We'd like to see animal diseases eradicated and off the consumer radar altogether. It's not good for...
PETER WEEKS

The Washington state economy right now is a job engine drawing people in from the sidelines and into...
GREG WEEKS

...Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt c...
BRENT WEEKS

WI played a young Helena Bonham Carter in a BBC film called 'A Dark Adapted Eye,' and I thou...
HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS

I was just 21 and I'd never had a Polynesian cocktail. I took one sip and was impressed. This would ...
MICHAEL WEEKS

I can't believe this is up here. We understood perfectly what this was about but we didn't feel that...
DAVID WEEKS

It was such a rare occurrence. People are going to search for a solution to this, but I really don't...
CHRIS WEEKS

The main frustration we had with Sri Lanka was although they weren't imposing customs duties on good...
CHRIS WEEKS

John McIntyre was originally strangled. But the rope was too thick. So he was gagging. So Jimmy shot...
KEVIN WEEKS

We're hitting up against supply constraints certainly this year. We're supplying all we can supply.
PETER WEEKS

Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.
BRENT WEEKS

It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I fi...
BRENT WEEKS

Pacifism is a virtue indisguishable from cowardice.
BRENT WEEKS

We knew Webster-Thomas would be tough. Section V teams are always tough and they just wrestled aweso...
ROB WEEKS

Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.
BRENT WEEKS

This world has only two kinds of people: villains and smiling villains.
BRENT WEEKS

Reach for the moon, because if you don't get there, you will still end up amongst the stars.
R.L. WEEKS

Lardo was getting on in years, and his big belly tended to slow him down a bit.
SARAH WEEKS

Certainly commodities seem to be the flavor of the month at the moment and the funds have continued ...
SIMON WEEKS

The truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers ...
BRENT WEEKS

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity ...
BRENT WEEKS

Effectively, what will happen is all of us running on these landlocked, inland protected lakes will ...
CHRIS WEEKS

The standards we already have are very conservative and they're part of the reason the passenger ves...
CHRIS WEEKS

Everyone is excited to see what rolls off the plane.
CHRIS WEEKS

[Sri Lanka and Little Rock] are definitely different, but the climate is not that different, the pro...
CHRIS WEEKS

You had to drive through the cows and sheep to get to the zebras.
ROD WEEKS

The reality is no one really knows when the foliage peak is,
CHRIS WEEKS

I have had days when it was 35 degrees and sunny and people are bundled up on the deck like it's a f...
CHRIS WEEKS

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you ...
BRENT WEEKS

'Foyle's War' made me realise that Churchill actually had questionable morals; his decis...
HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS

Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond...
BRENT WEEKS

Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don't fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control...
BRENT WEEKS

For years Melody had been making the same wish on every birthday candle, eyelash, wishbone, and shoo...
SARAH WEEKS

Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Ho...
BRENT WEEKS

I'm feeling good. I've been hitting the ball but I couldn't find a hole. Now I guess the holes are f...
RICKIE WEEKS

Weak men like humble women, especially great women who make them feel as inferior.
BRENT WEEKS

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more ab...
BRENT WEEKS

Each person?s signature is as individual as their fingerprint.
ROGER WEEKS

I tried doing yoga, but I have dislocating shoulders, one of which has been pinned, so I find things...
HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS

The crossroads of yesterday and tomorrow, Gatwick Airport.
DONALD WEEKS

A choice made having devastating consequences for another is really not a choice. It is an act.
BEEM WEEKS

He gave you his word. That was it. A handshake was all he needed.
MARILYN WEEKS

I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not. I am the strong arm ...
BRENT WEEKS

We have some significant issues that we need to solve. There is plenty of challenge for any professi...
CURTIS WEEKS

The reason I want this contract is I really do enjoy directing the Water Resources Agency. I don't w...
CURTIS WEEKS

I'm not sure where the rumor started, but when it got to me I put an end to it.
CURTIS WEEKS

Mr. Handley always was very direct and sincere in his contributions to the water resources agency. W...
CURTIS WEEKS

We are looking for all our processes to have a key set of measures, like a balanced scorecard. What ...
DALE WEEKS

When our legislature gets a proposal from the private sector we can show them our results and measur...
DALE WEEKS

Shouldn't there be one point of contact.
DALE WEEKS

The executive director wanted our focus directly on the CSE mission of getting more money to more ch...
DALE WEEKS

I do cook a lot for myself. I tend to cook from scratch, a lot of stews and things, lots of beans, b...
HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS

A lot of images that are traded and distributed are old. If they were taken years ago, it doesn't ma...
GRIER WEEKS

You can't just give people an ID card and everyone relaxes.
GRIER WEEKS

They're both working almost exclusively with children.
GRIER WEEKS

Sex offenders look for an opportunity to be around children, and driving an ice cream truck is one w...
GRIER WEEKS

We're all surprised by the persistence of the housing boom, and it actually is a boom in our state. ...
GREG WEEKS

Washington employers hired workers at a near-frantic pace in March. A lot of industries were growing...
GREG WEEKS

It's more evidence that the economy is on a pretty solid track.
GREG WEEKS

The Washington economy is a job engine, growing in employment and drawing people from the sidelines ...
GREG WEEKS

A wet boy has a deader, an assassin has a target, because assassins sometimes miss.
BRENT WEEKS

...escaping Neph's magic was impossible. He could sooner tear stars form the heavens.
BRENT WEEKS

..More choices in a limited time didn't mean didn't mean you could do everything-it meant that you c...
BRENT WEEKS

In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to sw...
LINTON WEEKS

The war defined a lot of things. Whatever he saw over there, he appreciated life here, and he apprec...
MARILYN WEEKS

Acting's incredibly enjoyable, but sometimes it doesn't feel quite enough. I've also wri...
HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS

My uncle worked in emergency wards dealing with people who came in with terrible injuries. He talked...
HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.
HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS

Polly had a gift for baking pies, and she poured her heart and soul into every one she made.
SARAH WEEKS

My whole view of Las Vegas and the theatrical maneuvering is a little bit of let's just wait and wat...
RANDY WEEKS

There are always two or three teams who won their division and went undefeated but never got to face...
ROB WEEKS

Rasputin?s writing looked like a snake went across the page.
ROGER WEEKS

Of course, it had to. When something traumatic like that happens, it can't help but affect you.
TONY WEEKS

I have to block it out and just keep playing ball. I don't know what's going to happen.
RICKIE WEEKS

When I first got called up last year, J.J. and I were basically the only two guys on the team (that ...
RICKIE WEEKS

On grief. We know where we've been. We know where we want to be.
WYLIE R. WEEKS

Grief, we know where we've been. We know where we want to be.
WYLIE R. WEEKS

The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of ...
CONNIE SELLECCA

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thin...
CONNIE NIELSEN

In the most surreal, the most joyful, the most beautiful, the most intense, the most alive moments o...
CONNIE KERBS

I have seen boys on my baseball team go into slumps and never come out of them, and I have seen othe...
CONNIE MACK

It is more profitable for me to have a team that is in contention for most of the season but finishe...
CONNIE MACK

When all our deeds of glory are laid in front of Thee,
CONNIE DOVER

When we parcel heaven and fence eternity, when the wildness is all tamed and torn, don't let me live...
CONNIE DOVER

I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. That's the only way I learn, the only ...
CONNIE CHUNG

Discouragement is the opposite of courage.
CONNIE TILLEY

For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable -...
CONNIE BRITTON

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano ...
CONNIE FRANCIS

I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by an...
CONNIE STEVENS

Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.
CONNIE STEVENS

I was more secure being a mother than I was walking on a set.
CONNIE STEVENS

My kids are pretty secure, bright, and know who they are.
CONNIE STEVENS

I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.
CONNIE STEVENS

I am a New Yorker.
CONNIE STEVENS

I love being Italian.
CONNIE STEVENS

I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled...
CONNIE STEVENS

Once you have an animal, you have to commit to it. They need a sense of freedom, but, of course, the...
CONNIE STEVENS

It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.
CONNIE STEVENS

She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop.
CONNIE STEVENS

Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really gett...
CONNIE STEVENS

I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.
CONNIE STEVENS

Every decorative piece in this house is my feeling, my choice.
CONNIE STEVENS

There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women...
CONNIE BRITTON

It is my belief that everything you need to know about the world can be learned in a church choir.
CONNIE WILLIS

My twin sister, my cousin, and I used to write and perform plays for my family. We raided the closet...
CONNIE BRITTON

Both the giving and receiving of love is encoded within our deepest physiology and is all-important....
CONNIE KERBS

With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out f...
CONNIE SELLECCA

When we distributed the paper and crayons, they were fighting over the blue crayon. Everyone wanted ...
CONNIE SELLECCA

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effo...
CONNIE WILLIS

If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A ...
CONNIE NIELSEN

There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.
CONNIE SELLECCA

The Taoists realized that no single concept or value could be considered absolute or superior. If be...
CONNIE ZWEIG

That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, f...
CONNIE WILLIS

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structu...
CONNIE MACK

I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.
CONNIE CHUNG

I have such a deep love for traditional country music.
CONNIE SMITH

Now that I have a 16-month-old son, my weekend ritual has changed - but it's better than ever. W...
CONNIE BRITTON

TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-d...
CONNIE NIELSEN

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any m...
CONNIE MACK

I really questioned whether I could in the beginning and now that I'm seeing results and have that s...
CONNIE ANDERSON

You become a member, and you own a piece of us. We offer basically all the services of a bank ... an...
CONNIE ANDERSON

That almost makes me want to do it more because with the high cholesterol and now this happening, I ...
CONNIE ANDERSON

When you're out there hiking with the girls at 5:30 and you see the other girls working out just as ...
CONNIE ANDERSON

I was very impressed with our second half. We played a 2-3 zone, but we didn't box out well so we ha...
CONNIE ALLEN

We usually start off slowly. We usually play better in the second half, but we just played well in t...
CONNIE ALLEN

I lost a cousin about three years ago. I felt helpless and wished there was something I could have d...
CONNIE ALLEN

They were beating us to the ball on the floor. We had one rebound in the first quarter, four by half...
CONNIE ALLEN

When you play your rival, you have to know that they're going to come with everything they've got. R...
CONNIE ALLEN

This is by far the best team we've seen. Their posts are quick so it's hard for posts to match up wi...
CONNIE ALLEN

We have a lot of girls who go out there and just bust their butts. It showed (against Centerburg) wh...
CONNIE ALLEN

I just told them to play better defense. We changed a couple things on our full-court press. We jump...
CONNIE ALLEN

They played a triangle-and-two on us. They matched up Corrie and Rachel and left our posts open. Cor...
CONNIE ALLEN

Morgan does that basically every game. We put her on their point guard and we tell her to pressure w...
CONNIE ALLEN

Something's going to happen in Cornwall on a bridge. Something controversial involving the Natives. ...
CONNIE ADAMS

There's something big coming to the outside area of Ottawa, sort of a private clinic for holistic as...
CONNIE ADAMS

Scandals aren't over. Something shows up in March, around the 12th or the 18th. I see a man in Parli...
CONNIE ADAMS

I see a gathering in the Dead Sea area--I have a feeling it's in Jordan. People will be going there ...
CONNIE ADAMS

I see the biggest protest ever on Parliament Hill in June. I can see the streets packed with people ...
CONNIE ADAMS

She still loves La Jolla very, very much. She had been used to the heat of New Orleans for so many y...
CONNIE ADAMS

There will be a huge political change within eight months and someone really huge is going to come i...
CONNIE ADAMS

A cold case will be brought back to full light. It'll be tough to prosecute but the Crown will succe...
CONNIE ADAMS

I feel like Canada's punishment from the US is over. They realize they've been choking our economy a...
CONNIE ADAMS

Early on, it was tough to find those players that fit the mold of our type of Texas player. These pl...
CONNIE CLARK

Privacy was the number one issue. We now have individual registration rooms, a room for a financial ...
CONNIE SCHROEDER

I will always find something that I want to try and become better at. I always love to spend more ti...
CONNIE NIELSEN

The other key is that we don't deviate more than five miles from where the vehicle is actually going...
CONNIE SHADE

We've met a lot of good people, and Robin, she's an angel. We've made it because God loves us. What ...
CONNIE HENDERSON

Cat left a pitch over the plate. We've seen [Lake] plenty, we recruited her, she's a great athlete. ...
CONNIE CLARK

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science ficti...
CONNIE WILLIS

This is one way to bring awareness to a lot of people about the inefficiency of lighting.
CONNIE WALKER

We will have a torch run at 2 p.m. and will light an Olympic cauldron to play up the Olympic theme.
CONNIE HAGLER

I was looking for someone to formulate a skin care line I could use.
CONNIE SELLECCA

It is too important not to continue. We are dedicating this year's run to Liz.
CONNIE HEARTY

With over 100 people there, someone had to see something. In some ways, I feel like (Perez) doesn't ...
CONNIE TRUJILLO

It's a culture shock for these kids when they move to a country they've never been to. I don't know how they manage. They didn't come here voluntarily. They were brought here. A lot of the students come in not knowing how to speak any English at all.

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Connie Weeks

It's a culture shock for these kids when they move to a country they've never been to. I don't know how they manage. They didn't come here voluntarily. They were brought here. A lot of the students come in not knowing how to speak any English at all.

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