Cynthia Lord Quotes
Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.
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I love working the legislative process.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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Peyton Royce and Billie Kay are two phenomenal workers; I would love to see them up here on Smackdown. They're great girls with great talent. A bit of momentum, and we're going to see amazing things from them.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.
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I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.
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Just because other people think something, that doesn't make it true. Maybe there's some truth in that, but it's unsatisfying, bitter-tasting truth.
