Jennifer Lynch Quotes
My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.
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We will just be trying to win so that we increase the gap between us and them. I thought Eastbourne bought well in the summer and I don't expect them to be languishing where they are for too long.
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I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me, 'You can, don't give up'.
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Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.
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There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.
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My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.
