Cynthia Lord Quotes
Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing.
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To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
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It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
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Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
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The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
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I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.
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I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
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I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we had the ability to turn off - nearly, you can't say perfectly, but nearly - all of our prejudices and biases.
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The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.
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Whether you're a Twitter follower, a YouTube subscriber or a Facebook friend, natural social instinct is to collect people and to not kind of see them later. But unfortunately, with social media, you collect them and they're in your life, whether you really want them or not.
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We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.
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I have a great life and I'm super active.
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There were times when chemo would eat my body, but I told myself that I have the strength and courage to win and come out stronger.
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I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.
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I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
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I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'
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People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!'
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I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners- two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
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In fact, punk rock means exemplary manners to your fellow human being. Fuck being an asshole, what you pussies thought it was twenty years ago.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Actors don't really get into their stride until they're in their late 30s and 40s.
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I mean, I've always felt like a lot of people's misconceptions of me have to do with how I grew up. I grew up poor, and I grew up rich. I think some people who have never met me have a misconception that when I was living with my father when he was successful, that I was somehow adversely affected by his success or the money he had and was making at the time.
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Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing.
