Cintra Wilson Quotes
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
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Without a dog, you'd never have anyone demonstrate how important it is to stop every day and smell the roses... and then lift your leg on them.
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You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world.
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I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.
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It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.
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If you're saying you should not be allowed in the country, you should be consistent and say that to all immigrants.
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More than half the states that will miss the voting-equipment deadline will have signed contracts with vendors.
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Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.
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It's not just a struggle for blacks to be accepted by whites, but the other way around as well. A lot of people don't see that.
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The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.
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About the different levels of skill involved. You have to practice before you become a great masturbator.
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Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
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My films are never about what Hong Kong is like, or anything approaching a realistic portrait, but what I think about Hong Kong and what I want it to be.
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When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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The comfort of the rich depends on an abundance of the poor. - Voltaire
