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I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.

Cynthia Nixon

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Cynthia Nixon
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: April 9
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Cynthia Ellen Nixon
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I feel like when I really did my research, I both came to hate Nancy Reagan more.
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The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.
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I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.
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I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress.
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We didn't know each other before [the film Killing Reagan], but I just knew we would love each other [with Tim Matheson].
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[My mother] worked in the Seagram's Building it's kind of an iconic '60s skyscraper on a floor so high that your ears popped. And all the women - the whole thing was so very Mad Men, very glamorous.
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If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself.
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The panelists on To Tell The Truth, which is the one that I really knew, they cared about getting it right. They wanted to guess, you know? Although, when I was on as a contestant, the one time I was on as a contestant, apparently they had a rule, which was that when children were on, everybody would get a vote - and Kitty Carlisle voted for me.
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