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Cynthia Dill Quotes

I'm a proponent of single-payer health-care, public education, protecting the environment - all the things Democrats rally around.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 6, 1965

Topics

Education Environment Public Education

I became friends with a lot of chefs. I was a judge on 'Top Chef' last year. It was a dream come true.

Chef Judge Friends Year Dream True

My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on.

Forward Comfortable Always Heroes

I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16.

Home Age Myself Past Care Grow

Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.

People Reason Eat Who No Reason

I love whimsy. My mother was a word person, a real quipster. She was famous in the 1950s for being a contester in Utah: 25 words or less. My bicycle, our hi-fi... in 1959, she won $15,000 from Remington-Rand for writing about a shaver. She was a farm girl from South Dakota.

Love Mother Girl Words Writing Farm

Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.

Work Challenge Always Voices Accent

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

Sea Space Rivers Like Genre Much

If you are conscious and really want change in this world, and you don't vote, then what was all the fighting for? All the things our parents and our parents' parents fought for?

Brian Tyree Henry

Change Parents World Fighting You

I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'

Alice McDermott

Work Day Job Treat Think Work Ethic

I have no problem at all going back and forth between cable and network.

Problem Back Going Between Forth

Sometimes people expect that I'm going to be tough. It's not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

Time People Treat Tough Better You

I was dating girls who were actresses, and that was fun, so I took a playwriting class. But that was short-lived. That was one year. Around that time, I was seeing movies that were making me think in terms of images.

Richard Linklater

Time Dating Fun Me Think Year

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