Cynthia Nixon Quotes
Nancy Reagan would just run up to these kids [with really painful disabilities and deformities] and hold them and pick them up... because I think she felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
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When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.
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The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
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The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.
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If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?
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I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it is to inspire them to read more.
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I've never not started.
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I played Little League in junior high and high school.
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Nancy Reagan would just run up to these kids [with really painful disabilities and deformities] and hold them and pick them up... because I think she felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.
