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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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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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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There is - I will just say that there was a disastrous day where I discovered really what radioactivity is and that just because you don't see it doesn't mean that it's not everywhere, so - Yeah. I was a slow learner for sure.
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I like throwing snowballs at small children.
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Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.
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I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.
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In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band. I had my little boogie-woogie thing that I did, so I did my little boogie-woogie thing. I had a very high-pitched voice.
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I find a way to convince people to come along with me. They want to be persuaded. When I sit in a room with you I'm going to sell you something whether you want it or not. At the end you'll say: 'I'm glad I bought that.'
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I knew I needed surgery and I didn't want to have it and I ended up having it.
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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
