Cynthia Lord Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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If you're hungry, you know that you want to eat. You don't know what's on the menu - perhaps it's not your favorite dish - but you will eat.
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I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.
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What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.
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Science Fiction has always been and will always be a fable teacher of morality.
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I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner.
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Ignorance is always afraid of change.
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Sometimes life is like a long road leading from one "if" to another.
