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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Electric circuitry profoundly involves men with one another. Information pours upon us, instantaneously and continuously.
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Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.
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The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.
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Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g - what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma - to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at 1 g until we arrive at our destination. It would take a day to get to Mars, a week and a half to Pluto, a year to the Oort Cloud, and a few years to the nearest stars.
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People make the world go, and Mothers make people, so they lead the dance.
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We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.
