Cynthia Weil Quotes

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

Cynthia Weil

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CreativeOutDidHowFigureFertile

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

Jo Brand

PeopleLaughJokesPurityBecause

I cook every day.

Jennie Garth

DayEvery DayCookEvery

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

John Leonard

FuturePastAmazingCreatingWay

Really, I'm only alive out of curiosity. I'm very curious about where we're all marching.

John Hurt

CuriousCuriosityAliveOutWhere

Manu Ginobili - I like to watch him. I would pay to watch him play the game. He will try things that will drive a coach crazy, like a full-court bounce pass, but he has such a flair for the game. I love his energy and his spirit and his unpredictability.

Jeff Van Gundy

LoveCrazyDriveGameEnergyPlay

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

Amartya Sen

OpportunityHealthMeCareAward

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.

Stendhal

LifeLoveBusinessMy LifeImportant

I've learned that guns are exceptionally challenging to use effectively, with a power that must be respected. But mostly what I've learned is that they're a lot of fun, and dangerously appealing to an active imagination.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

PowerImaginationFunActiveGuns

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.

Tom Wolfe

CommunismGoalStopWaySpreadDid

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

Rob Corddry

FunnySomeoneRememberBadWantOut

Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up.

Mike Hawkins

ChangeYouAheadUpCatchStay

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Denis Waitley

ExperienceMistakesYearsPainful

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