Cyndi Lauper Quotes
I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll go blind.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
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The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.
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I've just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there's no compression of time, there's no enhanced event, it's just real life?
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Our country is not in crisis; there are no tanks in the streets. No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones.
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Younger songwriters will ask me, 'What did you do?' And it's like, 'Well, I worked a day job, and I didn't stake anything. I didn't quit my day job. I didn't have any hopes at all. I just did the thing that I believed in, and I waited a long time.'
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Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.
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I still cherish the memory of walking into the Parliament for the first time.
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I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll go blind.
