Cynthia Nixon Quotes
Nobody ever really thought of me as sexy, right? They thought of me as smart and quirky.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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I received free health care.
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I'm going to be me, regardless of anything.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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Snowden grants that NSA employees by and large believe in their mission and trust the agency to handle the secrets it takes from ordinary people - deliberately, in the case of bulk records collection, and 'incidentally,' when the content of American phone calls and e-mails are swept into NSA systems along with foreign targets.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
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I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.
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Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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I just grow a terrible mustache, so I try to use my neckbeard as a substitute. And when I get lazy, I don't shave that often.
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The only thing God is building in this world is his church.
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Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.
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One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.
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All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
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Nobody ever really thought of me as sexy, right? They thought of me as smart and quirky.
