Cynthia Lord Quotes
To do brave things you don't have to be hugely brave, you only have be a little bit braver than you are scared.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.
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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
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My route is a little bit nontraditional. A lot of the people working in Nashville, they have a model. I don't really fit into that.
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The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.
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I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.
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My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
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Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
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I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.
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Working with Chiranjeevi sir, I realized the professionalism and attitude they used work with. It's just so contagious. When such a personality is doing that, everyone around, too, would do that out of respect. Work was far more efficient, smoother.
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I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old.
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Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.
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Being nice always comes back to repay us in the long run.
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A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
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To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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Writing is a process and you must trust the process! Fear and anxiety are part of that process along with the enthusaism and the good days and the joy and the passion and the great hopes you have for a book. But when you run into problems, when you get stuck or scared, you must trust that that is part of how a book comes to pass, and what you need to do is get very still and quiet because Self will tell you how to get out of a hole you've dug for yourself.
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To do brave things you don't have to be hugely brave, you only have be a little bit braver than you are scared.
