Cynthia Payne Quotes

Once the film came out everyone wanted me, including George Michael.

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• In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Career

• 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.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Men
  • Power
  • Help

• In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Life
  • Great
  • Ideas

• I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Strange
  • Kid
  • Piano

• I will keep painting until I die.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Die
  • Painting
  • Will

• I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Blues

• 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.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Good
  • Country
  • Journey

• I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Way
  • See
  • Mountain

• Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Always
  • Begins

• I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Music
  • Play
  • Dance

• In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Up
  • Help
  • Energy

• My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Being
  • Laugh
  • Relatives

• 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.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Growing

• 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.

  

  Kimberly Willis Holt
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Book

• 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.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Interesting

• I think marriage can sometimes turn things into a business. It stops being about feelings.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Business
  • Marriage

• 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.

  

  Kate Leth
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Help

• Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Day
  • Poetry
  • No Man

• There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment. You keep trying to master this very basic thing, and when you don't get it, you just scream. I broke a lot of drum heads, and I broke a lot of sticks.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Trying
  • Alone
  • Simple

• Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Giving
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• All music is rehash. There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. Try to tell the kids in the Seventies who were screaming to the Bee Gees that their music was just The Beatles redone. There is nothing wrong with the Bee Gees.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Music
  • Theme
  • Variations

• I do love science fiction, but it's not really a genre unto itself; it always seems to merge with another genre. With the few movies I've done, I've ended up playing with genre in some way or another, so any genre that's made to mix with others is like candy to me. It allows you to use big, mythic situations to talk about ordinary things.

  

  Rian Johnson
  • Science
  • Situation
  • Fiction

• Once the film came out everyone wanted me, including George Michael.

  

  Cynthia Payne