Cynthia Lord Quotes
All she had to do was tell the truth. This would be easy. I should've known, though. Real truth is never easy -Lily
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I never do anything out of my comfort zone.
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It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.
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Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.
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He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
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In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
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Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he performs, so also one and the same mind is called by the different names: mind, intellect, memory, and egoity, on account of the difference in the modes - and not because of any real difference.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
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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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Life is never free of contradictions.
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Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.
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For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries.
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'Extract' was kind of a grown up 'Office Space' in the sense of talking about the ennui of being a successful person in America if you don't have some real passion in your life for something to care about.
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Students today need experience to get a job, and they need a job to get experience. The Chegg Champion program provides students with a real-world working experience that actually offers financial rewards.
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I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
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I've never wanted to be put into a box, not musically.
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What I try to do with my career as an actor is what I've learned in the theater: I am rigorous with myself as to whether I'm telling the truth, and I try to surround myself with filmmakers and content creators who are also interested in the pursuit of the truth.
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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
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With the game on the line. I want the ball in my hands.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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One of the things I love about wen wu is its encouragement of developing the spiritual and intellectual aspects of the self that are actually more important than the development of the body and the capacity to commit violence - which is how much of Western pop culture defines a man.
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All she had to do was tell the truth. This would be easy. I should've known, though. Real truth is never easy -Lily
