Cynthia Lord Quotes
"I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine
Quotes to Explore
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'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.
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If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.
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Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships.
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I believe children's blessings are very powerful.
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Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
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Whatever market a company might dominate today, it is likely to change substantially over the next ten years. There's no such thing as 'sustaining' leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.
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All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.
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In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.
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I receive them only when he thinks I deserve it - I have to work for them!
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Blue Moon,You saw me standing alone,Without a dream in my heart,Without a love of my own.
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All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light. There was a time when I got hot under the collar if the critics said I had nothing new to say. Now I realise that they had a point. My field is the self-evident. Everything I say is obvious, although I like to think that some of the obvious things I have said were not so obvious until I said them.
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Rocco paid me 35 bucks a week at Murray's Inn in South Jersey. People started asking Rocco to have me sing.
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Over the years, a number of people have asked me why I tend to write at this great length. I've put some thought into the answer, and it can be boiled down one word: consequences. Well, maybe two words: consequences and characters. Or perhaps, consequences, characters, and the subconscious mind - above all the subconscious mind.
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Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.
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When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.
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Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.
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You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.
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"I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine
