Cynthia Lord Quotes
Sometimes understanding comes in little drops and other times it rushes in like the tide, rolling everything over as it comes.
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Because we're in a small town and somewhat isolated from the fast lane of high tech, we've been able to grow and concentrate on our work instead of being distracted by the competition and getting caught up in the soap opera of Silicon Valley.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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'Father, forgive them,' said Jesus, 'for they know not what they do' - People of good sense whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say.
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Non vi vieto per questo (ch'avrei torto)Che vi lasciate amar; che senza amanteSareste come inculta vite in orto,Che non ha palo ove s'appoggi o piante.
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How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?
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I learned that the songs that mean the most to me are the songs that I write by myself. While there were people I wrote really well with, particularly Gary Nicholson and Delbert McClinton, and I really enjoyed the experience, I came away from it feeling like I need to write by myself.
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I love any book that makes my family seem almost normal.
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I go to museums all the time.
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I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. I think hopefully it will mean a lot to New Zealand because I'm the next winner of the U.S. Amateur after Danny Lee.
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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.
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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
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Social media has created a digital latticework, but it has also, for some, created abusive commenters, silos, and validation rather than curiosity.
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Woman was God's second mistake.
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We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary.
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The 'Black Panther' world taught me about the importance of exfoliating.
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I'd be fine if there weren't film festivals, and you just made your films and didn't have to do anything from that point on. That would be really great, wouldn't it? I don't know. I'm in kind of an aloof time, where I'm not taking anything too seriously.
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My own experience is that the best outcomes are reached when opposing viewpoints are clearly and strongly presented before decisions are made.
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The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.
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If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.
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Sometimes understanding comes in little drops and other times it rushes in like the tide, rolling everything over as it comes.
