Jennifer Lynch Quotes
Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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I've always been into dressing nicely. My dad's really into fashion, also. We'll always go out and buy stuff. He has his own style and I have my own style, but it's a shared thing. Same thing with my grandfather; he was really into his style, so it's just sort of been passed down, I think.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
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There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.
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I know it seems like LCD Soundsystem sold millions and millions of records, but we didn't. I'm not a wealthy person.
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I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.
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While some of the big publishers might give out 200,000 advances, if your book does not hit some of the lists in the second week, they stop paying attention to you.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.
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Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.
