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.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Art
  • College
  • Painting

• 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.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Kitchen
  • Eating
  • Lifting

• I received free health care.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Free
  • Health
  • Care

• I'm going to be me, regardless of anything.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Me
  • Going
  • Regardless

• 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.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Hate
  • Husband

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Matter
  • Interest
  • Opinions

• The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Game
  • Basketball
  • Image

• 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.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Time
  • Enjoy
  • Disappointed

• 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.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Job
  • Want
  • Career

• When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • World
  • Women
  • War

• 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.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Money
  • Things
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Why
  • Question
  • See

• Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Control
  • Simple
  • Humble

• I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Crazy
  • Run

• 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.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Family
  • Doing
  • Percent

• Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Me
  • Season
  • Starting

• If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it's healthy for a country to have millions and millions of undocumented noncitizens living in the shadows. But it'll also be a sign that the Republican Party has gotten tired of letting the Tea Party push it around.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Country
  • Party
  • Tired

• To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Smart
  • Crime
  • Looking

• Moisturizing every night is important. When you're 50 or 60, it's going to show if you don't take care of it. You have to prepare when you're young, so you still have that healthy, glowing skin when you're 60 or 70.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Important
  • Night
  • Care

• I've raised my boys the old-fashioned way, with spankings, sending them upstairs if they misbehave at parties, the works. I believe discipline is the proof of love.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Believe
  • Discipline

• I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.

  

  Douglas Kennedy
  • Work
  • Paris

• Nobody ever really thought of me as sexy, right? They thought of me as smart and quirky.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Smart
  • Sexy
  • Quirky