Cynthia Payne Quotes

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

Cynthia Payne

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• In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Eye

• My dad is afraid of my laugh.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Dad
  • Laugh
  • Afraid

• Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Better

• Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Actor
  • Regret
  • Opening

• Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Talk
  • Tension
  • Racial

• The fashion industry really welcomed me with open arms and open hearts. They've been very accepting of my faith. I have strict wardrobe requirements, and that's something they've upheld.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Faith
  • Me
  • Fashion

• There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Many
  • Dressing
  • Too

• I've hidden behind my hair more than clothes. Sometimes having long hair with a fringe is very useful when you don't want to look at people. I used to have very short hair, but long hair is my thing - a black nocturnal shield.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Long
  • Black

• It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Bad
  • Freedom
  • Words

• My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.

  

  Alan Ball
  • People

• I downloaded ProTools - legally, of course... and I wanted to impress girls by making remixes of songs.

  

  Charlie Puth

• There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Trying
  • Lost

• I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

  

  Mary Wortley Montagu
  • Great
  • Hate

• It's interesting - I always thought when I was doing more melodramatic stuff like 'Everwood' that the directors were constantly reeling me in and stopping me from being funny.

  

  Chris Pratt
  • Interesting
  • Funny

• True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.

  

  Alek Wek
  • True
  • Kindness

• I'm very lighthearted, outgoing, friendly, and funny, so I like to try new things.

  

  Chandler Parsons
  • Funny

• To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Great
  • Writing

• People want to see themselves in the industry that, for so long, has ostracized girls of my size.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • People
  • Long

• Before Birdseye, hardly anybody ate frozen food because it was awful.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Food
  • Frozen

• If we are going to do away with polygamy, it would only be one feather in the bird, one ordinance in the Church and Kingdom. Do away with that, then we must do away with the prophets and apostles, with revelation and the gifts and graces of the Gospel, and finally give up our religion altogether.

  

  Wilford Woodruff
  • Religion
  • Kingdom
  • Revelation

• The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Important
  • Man

• I like my cheese, I like my milk in my coffee, and nobody's gonna tell me any different.

  

  Carmen Cusack
  • Different
  • Coffee

• Whatever he does, whether it's playing basketball or lifting weights, he is going to be physical and tough.

  

  Bobby Frasor
  • Basketball
  • Playing
  • Weights

• When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

  

  Cynthia Payne