Cynthia Nixon Quotes
In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
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Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.
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I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
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Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.
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I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight. And I loved it over the five years, but I think the adjustments for eight-year-olds are a lot. And I think it informs who you are for a long, long time.
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I just turned 40, and it's weird to think that I've been doing this almost my whole life. I was a child actor and then didn't do it through junior high and high school, then started up again in my late teens doing 'Young and the Restless.' Dabbled with school, went back to college, played around. I think I was doing Pleasantville at 23.
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My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.
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In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?
