Cynthia Heimel Quotes
Here is Heimel's Law: Anything you fantasize about won't come true. So just cut it out.
Quotes to Explore
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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The world is too violent right now.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
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My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
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I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system. And to suggest that I can somehow separate and divorce that from the rest of me is not possible.
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The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.
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Look at timber prices in the late '90s, at around $50. If you count the true damage of cutting down forests, the resultant flooding, insurance claims, and so on, then the timber price should have been $100.
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We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.
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The Big Bang, the formation of sars and planets, the origin and evolution of life on this planet, the advent of human consciousness and the resultant evolution of cultures - this is the story, the one story, that has the potential to unite us, because it happens to be true.
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Here is Heimel's Law: Anything you fantasize about won't come true. So just cut it out.
