Cynthia Nixon Quotes
Talk with your doctor, make healthy lifestyle choices and most importantly, know your body - as that can make all the difference in the world.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
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'I have a covenant with God. I cannot ask for anything outside what is written in the covenant. What I will achieve in this world is in a book I am carrying everyday; I just have to open the pages. Outside the book is not mine.'
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I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.
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I think the phrase 'computer-literate' is an evil phrase. You don't have to be 'automobile-literate' to get along in this world. You don't have to be 'telephone-literate.' Why should you have to be 'computer-literate'?
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I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.
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Talk with your doctor, make healthy lifestyle choices and most importantly, know your body - as that can make all the difference in the world.
