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.

Cynthia Lord

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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.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Up
  • Game
  • Waiting

• I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Down

• I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World
  • Black
  • Wisdom

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Long
  • Book
  • Quality

• A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Up
  • Idea
  • Revolutionary

• 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.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Model
  • Working

• The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • World
  • Same
  • Less

• I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.

  

  Kate Williams
  • People
  • History
  • Amazing

• My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Philosophy
  • Simplicity
  • Plus

• Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Today
  • Free
  • Exercise

• 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.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Writing
  • School
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Attitude

• I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Independent

• Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Brain

• Being nice always comes back to repay us in the long run.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Long
  • Nice

• 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.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Heart
  • Brain

• Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Truth
  • Fire
  • Driving

• 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.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • People
  • American

• Essentially, when we run a deficit, we are borrowing money to buy things that are made overseas.

  

  Peter DeFazio
  • Money

• I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Cool

• To succeed, you must be able to concentrate, and to know what to concentrate on.

  

  Denise McCluggage
  • Knows
  • Able
  • Succeed

• Scared is a strong word. I don't think I was that scared. We had jitters, and that was easy to see.

  

  Bobby Frasor
  • Word
  • Scared
  • Jitters

• To do brave things you don't have to be hugely brave, you only have be a little bit braver than you are scared.

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • Brave
  • Scared
  • To Do