Cynthia Lord Quotes

Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share.

Cynthia Lord

• Food
• Attention
• Crying
• Mouth
• Guinea Pigs

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• I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.

  

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• The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.

  

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• I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.

  

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• I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

  

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• The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

  

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• I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.

  

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• No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.

  

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• In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.

  

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• I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.

  

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• I haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy.

  

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• It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.

  

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• Being a known person is pretty much all I've known. I don't remember much of a time when people didn't know who I was.

  

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• We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.

  

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• I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.

  

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• I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.

  

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• As the flashbulbs burst she holds a smile Like someone would hold a crying child Soon everybody will ask what became of you Your heart was dying fast and you didn't know what to do.

  

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• The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

  

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• I would argue that the U.S. health care system is broken for reasons other than innovation.

  

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• Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share.

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • Food
  • Attention
  • Crying