Cynthia Stevenson Quotes
'The Player,' I loved so much because it was such a labor of love on all levels, and it was such an enormous honor to be in a Robert Altman movie.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.
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Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.
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Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
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Current and former Assistant Attorneys General have a duty to follow all rules related to the practice of law in the state of Texas.
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As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other level that men don't have to face.
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All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man.
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For Hollywood to make 'Spider-Man,' only to redo the movie a couple years later, just boggles the mind. To recast 'The Incredible Hulk' for a third time? I don't get it.
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I think my broadcast partner Mike Gorman said it best. He said there's a generation of fans who know me as a player and there's a generation of fans who know me as a coach and now there's a generation of fans who think I'm Shrek!
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'The Player,' I loved so much because it was such a labor of love on all levels, and it was such an enormous honor to be in a Robert Altman movie.
