Cynthia Nixon Quotes
Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask questions, don't be complacent.
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.
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Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a failed president being repudiated in the primaries of his own party.
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Every time you try to make another movie, you never know what will come of it. I can't say it ever gets easier, but it is in it's own way gratifying. I think that because no one movie that you make ever quite satisfies you, you're always feeling, "Next time I can get it right."
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As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.
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The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrient-dense diet.
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What is so bad about big government? My indictment of big government is that it is bad because it attacks liberty, prosperity, progress, harmony, and morality. Thanks to big government, we have significantly less of all of those good things than we would if we had been able to keep government right-sized. Big government is cancerous. Like a cancer, it hurts the body and tends to spread, doing more and more harm as it grows. It is time for some radical surgery.
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Now I have a third must-do on my list of things to do with cancer, and it's this: follow your gut, ask questions, don't be complacent.
