Cynthia Nixon Quotes
I used to just take every job that seemed relatively appealing. But now I take a job and it's in the trades the next day - it feels like people are watching and waiting to see what you do, and when you do take a job, attention is noted.Cynthia Nixon
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
Laura Bush -
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
Tadao Ando -
The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
Patrick deWitt -
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser -
I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
Samuel Larsen
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
Salman Rushdie -
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
Ramana Maharshi -
Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
Questlove -
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz
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I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
Sam Neill -
It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
Zadie Smith -
It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
Mallory Ortberg -
The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
Barry Diller -
Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
Vida Blue -
The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
Abbas Kiarostami
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It's a big deal to reveal your friend's deepest truth, your friend's deepest secret. And for all of us, when we do these big things, there's a complexity of motivation that comes behind that decision.
Gene Luen Yang -
I did find Calypso hotdog - but only once, far in the depths of the very wildest of Canadian dark woods, near those high, cold, moss-covered swamps. … I felt as if I were in the presence of superior beings who loved me and beckoned me to come. I sat down beside them and wept for joy.
John Muir -
Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall
George Fetherling -
I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
Harriet Martineau -
What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.
Philip Zimbardo -
I used to just take every job that seemed relatively appealing. But now I take a job and it's in the trades the next day - it feels like people are watching and waiting to see what you do, and when you do take a job, attention is noted.
Cynthia Nixon