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 called this press conference today to talk about a new challenge that i will face, a personal one – one that requires me, once again, to be an underdog and a fighter. A few days ago, I was diagnosed with cancer, aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkins lymphoma, to be specific – which is a cancer of the lymph nodes.
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Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
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Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away. And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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Every person I see has a story to tell.
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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.
