Cynthia Leigh Wilson Quotes
The music comes alive when you actually perform it in front of a crowd.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Well who's black and what is a black person?
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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I don't like anything that's too confining. I'm sort of a control freak, so anything that makes me feel like I'm out of control is a bit uncomfortable. But you know how it is, sometimes it's good to live a little!
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I think I'd better take some of Gramps' sleeping pills, I'm never going to be able to sleep without them. In fact I think I'd better take a supply of them. He's got plenty, and I'm sure I'll have a few bad nights at home before I get straightened out. Oh, I hope it's just a few.
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If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese.
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You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'
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If you want to see that human story unfold, if you want to understand that only the unexpected life is worth a damn, spend some time with 46 years of Lou Reed's work: music that leaped and then looked. Safety is for the godless and the faithless.
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The music comes alive when you actually perform it in front of a crowd.
