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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
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And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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I can tell you that Rey is an incredibly brave young woman who starts off alone and encounters Finn, and they go on an amazing adventure, and she makes relationships she never could have imagined, and she sees things she never could have imagined.
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What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners who are leading the fight for justice and better race relations in these crucial days
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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.
