Cynthia Lord Quotes
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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Movies don't have borders.
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With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters. It's fun switching it up at times. No matter what, I feel so honored and blessed to be 16 and already living my dream. It's really special.
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
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To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.
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I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.
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I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
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One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.
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I'm not the kind of person who would throw himself into some exciting or dangerous situation just to get material. So I tend to go about my normal, boring life and just try to look at things a little more closely.
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I go to the club and can dance a little. I'm known to get down.
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In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
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Sometimes life is like a long road leading from one "if" to another.
