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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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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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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There have been plenty of Republican efforts to go to the extreme scandal zone. Impeaching Bill Clinton was a classic example. Fortunately, the Senate had enough sense to acquit Clinton, and the American people were behind him in huge numbers.
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Sometimes, I don't notice I'm singing.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.
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My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.
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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.
