Cynthia Lord Quotes
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
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Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.
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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
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I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.
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I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.
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I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.
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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
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On the Kurds They're the most fucked people on Earth. You know that. They might as well change their name to the Fucks, 'cause they're fucked. We used to be the Kurds, now we're the Fucks!
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Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people.
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Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones that do.
