Cynthia Leigh Wilson Quotes
It's incredible to have people come up to you and tell you that you changed their life when their life was really, really dark. That you brought some light in. You also learn that it's OK to be a weirdo and not follow the rules.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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TV's been good to me.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.
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McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
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What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.
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If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.
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Print is at the very, very top in the fashion business - of course it is.
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When I hear the word Culture I take out my checkbook
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I don't know how long I would've stayed, to be honest.
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I don't want to go to another roller-coaster ride of a movie. If I want that, I'll go to Magic Mountain. I'm really interested in the young directors that are doing different things in cinema. I think the movies people will hold onto are the Rushmores and the Being John Malkoviches. Those are the kind of films I want to do; that's what I'm passionate about.
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'Flower' is about the sublime.
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Rarely, rarely, comest thou, Spirit of Delight! Wherefore hast thou left me now Many a day and night? Many a weary night and day 'Tis since thou are fled away.
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Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair trigger balances, when a false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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I spent a lot of my life - 20 years of it - in war, training army trackers and commanding a tracker unit, and then in the Game Department, tracking lions and elephants and poachers. So I've spent literally thousands of hours tracking people or animals, and training others to do it.
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I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.
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It's incredible to have people come up to you and tell you that you changed their life when their life was really, really dark. That you brought some light in. You also learn that it's OK to be a weirdo and not follow the rules.
