Cynthia Nixon Quotes
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Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I'd be the chief minister.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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In New York, you can just wake up and everything sorts itself out. I love that, not having a plan.
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I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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I think some people have a rare ability to focus. As a player, Earl Thomas has it. When he was at practice or in a game, he was always on; he was right there.
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One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
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I loved campaigning for Obama.
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I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place - a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.
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I think it is important not to scream from the rooftops to make yourself heard, I want my work to do the talking for me.
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It's a mistake to think that Dexter is nice.
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It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.
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As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee - the chief tax-writing body in Congress - I understand that true comprehensive tax reform is tremendously difficult.
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We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.
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A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex.
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Women love to be asked more about their clothes than their work. We're dolls; we made a wish to become alive.
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When I went to university, I decided that I would like to do something related to plant ecology, because I felt that plants were so beautiful. When I am studying plants, I feel like I am talking with some kind of supernatural life, like I am talking with someone who does not speak.
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If the setups take too long, you wind up losing momentum. Momentum is very good for comedy. Not having to do eight setups in a single scene and have it take five hours is very good for comedy.
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Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a wasted word. It’s an extraordinary achievement: vivid as neon, real as rain. Devastating.
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Political nationalism has become, for the European of our age the most important thing in the world, more important than civilization, humanity, decency, kindness, pity, more important than life itself.
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I don't have Steve. There is no having the Steve.
