Jim Lynch Quotes
As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.
Quotes to Explore
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African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.
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Voting has proliferated in the United States, and it has reached a point where there is now almost one vote available per citizen over the age of eighteen.
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The Tea Party movement went off on a more extreme agenda that I did not support at all, and was very frustrated by it, to the point that not only did I change parties, I decided to do something about it and run for Congress.
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Baseball is a team game.
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I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.
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'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'
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Saturdays are set for antique shops. Williamsburg in Brooklyn has some good ones. I get in there and start meddling around with dusty boxes and rickety, worn-in stuff. I like it when I find something with someone else's name on it.
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That culture of frugality and discipline is really important for the Y Combinator mindset.
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I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.
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There's a bunch of places in the world I haven't been to, 'cause I can only be on a plane for a little bit. I'm like, 'How long is it to get there? Two days on a plane? What? No.'
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With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
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One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
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I wasn't one of the ones voted most likely to succeed when I was at drama school, but I persevered and concentrated on the acting rather than going to the right parties and getting the right agent. Eventually, after ten years, it paid off.
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I love coming of age stories that have struggle.
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There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.
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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
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I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong.
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I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of lightning lit up this truth for me, right in front of my eye. That night i lost you, I lost something inside me. Or perhaps several things. Something central to my existence, the very support for who I am as a person.
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Why do you hurt me? What more do you want?” she asked, tears shining in her eyes. “Power over you, little one,” he said, smiling. “What does any man want but that? It is something in the blood of every one of us. We would all be a tyrant if we could.
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The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.
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My primary job is to choose the programs, either to co-produce them, or acquire them after they're finished. So, I read a lot of scripts, I meet with producers and I read a lot of books.
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If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.
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As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.
