Cynthia Lord Quotes
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one.
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But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
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The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!
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Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real practice.
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I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.
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When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.
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People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.
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I love working closely with people.
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The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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People were saying, 'He's worth £32m? He tried a back-heel and fell over!' Even I laughed. In my head, I said, 'OK, you've seen the bad side, now come see the good side'.
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There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental illness and what it means. I do think that people are overmedicated.
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People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
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You turn hotdogs with tongs. Don't you ever use those tongs on a hamburger.
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I think NASCAR's coming to Canada now so it'll take on a whole new relevance. Be afraid.
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I think it's weird seeing myself on the television, but it's great!
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When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
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It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.
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Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.
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It is a lot of responsibility. But I enjoy being a father. That's one of the best parts of my life. I feel like, man, that's one of the greatest things I've got going on, being a father.
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Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?
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Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't.
