Cyndi Lauper Quotes
Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic dresser or preppy dresser or a modern dresser, you wear a lot of black - whatever it is - your home should reflect that as well.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you think it's going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the hell out of you... the moment you sit down and you start being exposed to that story, it's going to freeze your blood.
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It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.
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Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
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I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
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The single most exciting thing that happened for me was getting to spend some time in the studio with both Marty Stuart and Vince Gill.
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Teaching is very important. The nature of your personality isn't that important. Lombardi was very extraverted, very bombastic. Landry very quiet, reserved. Both were great teachers and great coaches.
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The best games came from great characters.
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Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.
