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 think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

Aaron Levie
- Think
- Pretty
- Kind
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.

T. J. Miller
- People
- Change
- Better
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