Cynthia Stevenson Quotes
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I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.
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When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.
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We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
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When did you last have fun being dignified?
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The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.
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I'm not fashionable, and I know nothing about fashion, but I have my individual style, and style is eternal.
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Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky.
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I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.
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Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
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I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?
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It's always astounded me to have succeeded at having kids. It's crazy!
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You see that it is not at all like Rodin... I share these only with you, don't show them.
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You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.
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You know that saying, 'You broke it, you bought it'? With horses, if you don't make sure it's a good fit... they tend to break you.
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Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
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Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.
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The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.
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When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill.
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In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.
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'You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason-if you pick the proper postulates. We have ours and Cutie has his.'
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You always hope an audience will respond to something you've done, but there's no way of knowing whether or not they will.
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I'm delighted when people respond with passion and readily intensity to my work. Literature is not as the economist would put it a positional good; in other words, there is infinite space for good literature.
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There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
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I loved doing 'Dead Like Me.' That role was phenomenal to me.
