Cynthia Lord Quotes
I imagined Dad beside me: “It’s pretty,” he’d say. “But pretty isn’t enough for a great photograph. Show me why I care. What’s the story?
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'
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America is a collection of people from different races, religions, and backgrounds - that is part of what makes us great. But a common language is what brings all of those people together to form a community.
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If you want to conduct terror against Israelis, which is unacceptable, send fighters to do it. Don't send your women and children.
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Though I played classical piano since age 5 and sang in a cappella groups, being an artist didn't seem like something I was talented enough to do full time. So I kind of buried that dream.
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My favorite drink is sake.
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My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.
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Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.
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My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.
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I'll be honest: I naturally have a pretty good eyebrow shape. I always have. I would get made fun of when I was younger because they were so thick.
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If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.
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I will never reach the success that my dad has felt.
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I imagined Dad beside me: “It’s pretty,” he’d say. “But pretty isn’t enough for a great photograph. Show me why I care. What’s the story?
