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
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
Adam Lamberg
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I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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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.
Rachel Kushner
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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.
Gail Collins
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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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.
Kajal Aggarwal
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I vicariously lived the life of an independent producer from the time I was 4 years old.
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
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Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.
Kage Baker
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Being nice always comes back to repay us in the long run.
Ben Carson
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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.
Louis Nizer
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Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.
Leonardo da Vinci
