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Cynthia Weil Quotes

You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.

Cynthia Weil

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 18, 1940

Topics

Believe In Yourself Yourself Door You

I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.

Andy Garcia

Father Mother Freedom Children Wife

I remember thinking when I was in college that a lot of these known Chomsky-like, verbose, high-lefty thinkers made absolutely no sense, but I thought that was my problem.

Andrew Breitbart

College Thinking Thought Problem

The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders.

John Jay Hooker

Rich Founders Feared According

People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me.

Michael Ironside

People Me Wonder Take Either

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.

Tony Dungy

Mother Teacher Book Someone You Say

For a thousand years after the Dead Sea Scrolls were written, the Jewish holy scriptures - the five parts of the Torah and 19 other holy books - were copied and passed down in the various Jewish communities from generation to generation.

Ronen Bergman

Sea Generation Down Dead Jewish

Value manifests itself as exchange value, as a quantitatively determined relationship, in virtue of the fact that one commodity can be exchanged for another.

Rudolf Hilferding

Relationship Value Virtue Determined

You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.

Mike Nichols

Money People You Want Myth Move

In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't want to be too personal. If you are, then it probably won't relate to a mass audience. A lot of times you have to make it sound like it's about everybody else, but you really went through it.

Josh Turner

Today Time Writing You Personal

It's easy to think that craft can't change but important to remember that all craft process was at some point new, at some point challenged convention - not to be contrary, but enabled by some breakthrough, some newly discovered principle, or sometimes some wonderful accident.

Jonathan Ive

Change Think Process Remember Easy

I wanted to do something that nobody else was doing. I didn't have a mentor. There were no other women on the radio.