Cynthia Voigt Quotes

I think writing is a part-time career, because otherwise you get a little stale, maybe even self-indulgent, when you have to fill the hours with sentences. I don't think, if I wrote 12 hours a day, my work would be much better.

Cynthia Voigt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 25, 1942

Topics

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You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.

Joan Didion

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I don't feel unlucky in love anymore, and it's not all emo. It's a scary place to be in when you're like: 'What am I supposed to write about now? I don't feel heartbroken, so now what?'

Jenny Lewis

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'Tis always best to tell the truth. At every crisis, I recommend this as a chief contribution to security in life.

Menander

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I did my undergrad at Florida State, got a Bachelor's, and then I got my Masters in Acting at NYU. So I've spent a lot of time in the classroom.

Andre Holland

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Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.

Anna Paquin

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Every coal miner I talked to had, in his history, at least one story of a cave-in. 'Yeah, he got covered up,' is a way coal miners refer to fathers and brothers and sons who got buried alive.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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I never check my bank account. I know that sounds crazy. But I don't know how much is in there. I never know how much is in there. I have an idea - I have a bottom line - but I never look because I always make believe there's never anything in there.

Trixie Mattel

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If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'

Mary J. Blige

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The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.

Jay Samit

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When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to one gender or the other.

Javier Bardem

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I do a lot of stuff with Wounded Warriors and the Armed Forces Foundation; if you want to get these guys to stop talking, start complimenting!

Brian Kilmeade

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I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.

Bruno Mars

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