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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There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.
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It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome.
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As an actor - like an artist - you have to ask, "Why do I choose a certain moment to play something a certain way?" It's organic to who we are.
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It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.
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Michael was a type of person the whole family went behind who crossed all borders with his music.
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We were very fortunate to have been on the scene when we were.
