Cynthia Weil Quotes
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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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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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I'm not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice.
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I know the world is pretty intense, but in my opinion, there's nothing more perilous than being a teenager and watching a raunchy comedy with your parents.
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Giving is above what we owe God, and that is our tithes.
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Art is meant to bring people together. It's meant to raise consciousness.
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When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.
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There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.
