Cyndi Lauper Quotes
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I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.
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Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
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I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.
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I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.
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My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?
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I admire Chris Martin. Coldplay have made some wonderful records for the genre they're involved in, but I would consider them to be more of a pop act. The music is much more cerebral than it is animalistic.
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I love carbs, but denial is good training for the mind.
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Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles
