Cynthia Rowley Quotes

I always like that sort of tomboy aesthetic.

Cynthia Rowley

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• I have the deepest, deepest respect for these guys who are actually fighting for democracy in countries far away.

  

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• You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors.

  

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• I always like that sort of tomboy aesthetic.

  

  Cynthia Rowley
  • Aesthetic