Cynthia Lord Quotes
It's scary to try something different when you don't know how it'll work out, but that's when the best things can happen. The things that surprise you and change you. Those things can make *you* different - Salma
Quotes to Explore
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
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Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.
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It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.
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No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.
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If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.
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I don't want to say, 'I want to be in Hollywood,' like so many actors do, but I know that Hollywood is still making good movies, and I'd like to be part of that someday.
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A million years went by quick.
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It's a 12-hour cooking class for me on the set of 'Chopped.' You'd think I'd get sick of it, but it's a source of endless interest to me. The only thing I don't like about it is it's a long day and my feet hurt. Otherwise, I love it.
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When I was younger, my sister thought it was funny to pretend to punch me in the face because my mom was concerned about my teeth falling out. They were loose for a long time, and she knocked out my teeth.
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
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When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.
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It's scary to try something different when you don't know how it'll work out, but that's when the best things can happen. The things that surprise you and change you. Those things can make *you* different - Salma
