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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Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.
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'Kiss Land' is the story after 'Trilogy'; it's pretty much the second chapter of my life. The narrative takes place after my first flight; it's very foreign, very Asian-inspired. When people ask me, 'Why Japan?' I simply tell them it's the furthest I've ever been from home. It really is a different planet.
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We look for partners who are solving a problem for us. If they've already solved it, we'd much rather try to partner with them than try to rebuild it.
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It's odd. Fifty percent of me feels it's the right time to be closing this. The other 50 percent of me is saying it's more than a show. It's a group of people that love each other. It's a group of people that come together every day trying to make America laugh, and what better thing is there to do than that?
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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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.
