Jenn Lyon Quotes
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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My original dream was to become a singer-songwriter, so I sent a video of myself playing the piano and singing to all the big agencies.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.
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As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.
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Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
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Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.
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The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
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I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
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Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an 'only' in that regard.
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Natural ability is important, but you can go far without it if you have the focus, drive, desire and positive attitude.
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What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it.
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I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there weren't too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.
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Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.
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I'm a really gifted physical comedienne. I write and produce a lot of sketch comedy.
