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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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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Being a working mother is not easy, but I think it helps you choose what's important in your life. If I think about starting a new project - whether it be music, a movie or a fragrance - I always stop and think: Is this something I feel really passionate about? That way, if I'm not at home at least it's for something I really love, and my son can look up to that.
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You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids' books that I was reading.
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Ethereum may make monetary policy decisions like, 'Let's do 1% inflation to support the ongoing development of the Ethereum protocol.' A token built on Ethereum might want to do the same.
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That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.
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Sometimes life is like a long road leading from one "if" to another.
