Cynthia Lord Quotes
Mom says I have to deal with what is and not to get my hopes up, but how else can hopes go but up
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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My album is very uplifting and positive and fun. That was my mission - to get people up on their feet and escape the seriousness of life.
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When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
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Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.
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My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.
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Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.
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When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a few days, interact with some officials and analysts, most of the time English-speaking elite, and file the story and go home.
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It's a lot harder to get people to 'ooh' and 'aah' over beets and carrots than it is to get them to 'ooh' and 'aah' over artichokes or asparagus, and I enjoy being able to take these humble, 'lowbrow' foodstuffs up a few notches and serve them with great exuberance.
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I liked to be in my own company, so when I came home from school, I'd just go up to my room and hang out by myself. I wouldn't really have friends over or go to see friends much.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned.
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Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.
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Mom says I have to deal with what is and not to get my hopes up, but how else can hopes go but up
