Cynthia Voigt Quotes
All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
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My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.
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I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in my songs: Karen, Margaret, Mary Kay. Even if it's about me, I want to put it through someone else. The music is the soundtrack to the story.
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Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.
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My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs.
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I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.
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They're not prosthetics. They're my bones. They come out when I’m inspired. They've always been inside of me, but I have been waiting for the right time to reveal to the universe who I truly am.
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All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.
