Cindy Williams Quotes

Growing up in the country, you're left to the wilds of your imagination.

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• One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Truth
  • Always
  • Try

• God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

  

  Ted Williams
  • God
  • You
  • Own

• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Creativity

• The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Life
  • Good
  • True

• It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Spirit

• When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Found
  • Go
  • Coworkers

• If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Long
  • Night
  • Relationship

• The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Time
  • Book

• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • City
  • Washington
  • Call

• I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.

  

  Yael Stone
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Night
  • Write
  • Very

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Yourself

• The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!

  

  Lady Gregory
  • She
  • Bad
  • Government

• Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • True
  • Beautiful
  • Imagination

• I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Night

• [For American consumer society], the country's reserves of ignorance constitute a natural resource as precious as the Mississippi River or the long-lost herds of buffalo.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Long
  • Country
  • American

• I think the audience doesn't know a movie's lit, but they feel it. Because you've walked in a forest many times, or in a park, so you know how it looks. When you start lighting, subconsciously you know there is something that is absolutely wrong.

  

  Emmanuel Lubezki
  • Movie
  • Forest
  • Lit

• Whatever your past may have been, your future is still spotless.

  

  Boonaa Mohammed
  • Future
  • Past
  • Spotless

• The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

  

  Leslie Nielsen
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Style

• We're living in extraordinary times, all the time. The issues that assail us are perennial. They haven't changed since the Greeks picked up a pen.

  

  Anthony McCarten
  • Up
  • Time

• Growing up in the country, you're left to the wilds of your imagination.

  

  Cindy Williams
  • Up
  • Country
  • Growing