Cynthia Weil Quotes
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Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.
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I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
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I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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I'm worried about the future of America insofar as our academically most promising students are being funneled through the cookie-cutter Ivy League and other elite schools and emerging with this callow anti-American, anti-military cast to their thinking.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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I'm lucky to attribute my success to the foundation my family gave me. I've always felt grounded in them.
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The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.
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The thing that 'Annie' means to me is that it is good to always be strong, and if you have a goal, go for it, and if there is something in your way, just go around and find your path again, and go for your goal.
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I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'
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Laughter is America's most important export.
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It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.
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I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'
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I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.
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The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.
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Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.
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On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.
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Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.
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We were very fortunate to have been on the scene when we were.
