Cynthia Lord Quotes
It's just as important to show the hard things in the world as it is to show the beautiful ones. Even in the midst of horrible things, there are little bits of wonder, and all of it's true.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
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Before Juilliard, I was a schoolteacher for a little bit. I taught in a charter school. I was a substitute teacher for kids ages 3 to 6.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
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I'm very lucky to have a job that I love.
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I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and it's got nothing to do with having my name on it. I absolutely rely on it.
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Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
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I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.
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Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.
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Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
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Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
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Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection.
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Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.
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When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.
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It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town, out on the edge of the prairie...
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Three score and, and ten has always been something that I never thought I'd make. So when I made it, I wanted to celebrate it and I did.
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I came out to my family when I was 13. I was a very young kid, a vulnerable kid.
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Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light.
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It was as if she wanted to take the power away even from the realistic possibility of violent death by reducing it to words, to a form that could be controlled.
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So most astronauts are astronauts for a couple of years before they are assigned to a flight.
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My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.
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There's certainly pressure to find your audience early. You need to paint the picture, but it's tough trying to find the balance between a show that people can tune in on any given week while still grabbing the people who are there every week.
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It's just as important to show the hard things in the world as it is to show the beautiful ones. Even in the midst of horrible things, there are little bits of wonder, and all of it's true.
