Cynthia Rowley Quotes
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What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.
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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.
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I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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A lot of times people feel a little apprehensive about suggesting to actually meet in person. One of the reasons that can be hard is people think they have to propose something super novel.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.
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I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.
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I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.
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I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.
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My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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Two powerful people can't be friends.
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There's a connection when people are dancing, laughing, and singing, and that definitely happens with 'Head Over Boots.'
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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In my experience in series TV, if you have a good crew and a great cast, it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other, and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work.
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Overhearing people's conversations about art - that's always entertaining.
