Cyndi Lauper Quotes
I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.
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As far as 'Windup Girl' becoming a hit - none of us expected that. 'Night Shade' was just hoping not to lose their shirts, and I had grown up hearing from everyone that science fiction didn't sell, so all of our expectations were very low.
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Our entire brand is about transparency. We want that data out there because you know what? If you are only getting one in three messages replied to, you're normal. You're right there in the middle of everything with everyone else.
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The medical professionals are a lot more comfortable calling it 'depression' than calling it 'loneliness.'
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While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning first, third, fourth and seventh prizes in an international competition for college and high school students.
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I really get inspired by songs. Like, if I hear a thug 'Want to kill ya' song, I'm ready to go out and get crazy. Or if you hear this really sexual, sensual slow song, I want to go have sex. I'm very animalistic when it comes to stuff like that. Very basic emotions.
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Usually a lot of moviemaking is boring.
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Western Europeans are not having any babies.
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My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.
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Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.
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I'm gonna still play some dates, but I'm not gonna do anything near like I did it before.
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Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.” “I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.
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You got a man? That's somethin we will talk about. He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out.
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Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.
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If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you.
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People often think of Haiti as a place where you're not supposed to have any joy. I wanted to show that this is a place with joy.
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What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
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There's a reason that so much good material is coming down to the small presses: it's difficult to turn a profit, all things considered. But you can't go into small press publishing and complain about the money. Our Little Island publishing just needs to survive. If we're still around in a few years - in vaguely the same shape as we are today - then, to me, that's success.
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No matter how many people celebrate your gifts, don't ever think that you are more important to them than your gift is to them. This is why many people fail: They fail because they think that people came to follow them.
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Everybody has a great deal of experience in living. But no one lives in anything like the highest style of the art; and it is very disconcerting to notice how badly one lives in the sense of the extent to which fatigue and other discomforts are connected with one's important dealings with other people.
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I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.
