Cynthia Payne Quotes
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In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.
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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
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In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.
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I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.
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I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.
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Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.
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I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
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My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
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But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength, both in numbers and wealth; … unless, by a neglect of military discipline, we should lose all martial spirit …; for there is much truth in the Italian saying, Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.
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Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.
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I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.
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I think marriage can sometimes turn things into a business. It stops being about feelings.
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The Valkyries were an idea that my boss and I came up with when, at the comic shop one day, I mentioned how great it would be if there were a girl gang for women working in comic shops.
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Men in high heels? That's a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help. But a man in heels is ridiculous.
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I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
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If someone thinks homosexuality is immoral, they have a right to believe that.
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Kirk Kerkorian has not been through the design dome.
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When deep down in the core of your being you believe that your soulmate exists, there is no limit to the ways he or she can enter your life.
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My business life takes a big chunk of time, but I still put exercise in my schedule. I'm up at 5 A.M. and get up and stretch and go for a run in Runyon Canyon with all five of my dogs.
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Once the film came out everyone wanted me, including George Michael.
