Cynthia Lord Quotes
Yeah, but 'beyond reach' means you want to reach something. It's more than far away; there's an absence. Missing something you can't have.
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I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once 'The Great Indian Laughter Challenge' was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.
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People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
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My greatest competition is, well, me.
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I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
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Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
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Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
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While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.
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Reality is a sliding door.
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People often think they would have made the noblest choice, but when they find themselves actually in such a situation, they discover matters aren’t quite so simple.
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This is an evil law, a black flag hovers over it.
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We, the undersigned, gathered in Pilgrimage to the capital of the State in Sacramento in penance for all the failings of Farm Workers as free and sovereign men, do solemnly declare before the civilized world which judges our actions, and before the nation to which we belong, the propositions we have formulated to end the injustice that oppresses us.
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I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.
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I love the people I work with and the stuff I've found and that's found me.
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I really care about leaving a trail of goodness wherever we can.
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More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
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I don't know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can't deal with corporate welfare.
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When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you can't be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.
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Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.
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And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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Yeah, but 'beyond reach' means you want to reach something. It's more than far away; there's an absence. Missing something you can't have.
