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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I am honest; I speak the truth, and I sometimes probably go overboard and speak my mind.
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I know a lot of girls in the comedy world who are kind of like me. I don't know where the slutty girls hang out, but it's not the comedy world as far as I know.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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I take care of myself, which includes dieting, exercising and minimising stress. I joke that I've been on a diet since 1974, which is basically true.
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There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
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Here is Heimel's Law: Anything you fantasize about won't come true. So just cut it out.
