Cynthia Weil Quotes
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.
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It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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Language usage always has a political context.
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I'm lucky because I had blonde hair for a while for this TV show I was doing – they had me dye my hair blonde – and every audition I was going out for was bleach blonde. The mean girl, the pretty girlfriend, and the dumb cheerleader.
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Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.
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So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.
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It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.
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We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody.
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The only certainty in war is human suffering, uncertain costs, unintended consequences.
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I like it, I love it, I want some more of it.I try so hard, I can't rise above it.Don't know what it is 'bout that little gal's lovin', but I like it, I love it, I want some more of it.
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It can never be wrong to give pleasure.
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I think TV, at least most immediately, perhaps more so than film, is a reflection of society.
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Nebraskans have very strong opinions, but we sit down around a table and we solve our problems.
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Listening and hearing are two different things, and acting is comprehending what the person is saying, thinking how it makes you feel and responding. That's the key to really honest, truthful, compelling performance.
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I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.
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Twenty-five years is a long time for a girl to live out of a trunk, and after looking over a few houses, I fell in love with one in Southwest Los Angeles.
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We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.
