Jim Lynch Quotes
I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist still has a difficult mission, to try to boil down people.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I am hopeful that no one will forget what happened in Bosnia.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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I've worked with farmers in Zimbabwe who've lost their lands. I've worked with people in Venezuela, under threat of kidnappings, whose external world is unstable. But they have very strong social connections with their family and friends. And as a result, they're able to maintain a greater level of happiness and optimism than I've seen from bankers, consultants, or salespeople who are on the road all the time, who follow jobs separated from their families, and, as a result, find themselves missing out on the happiness that comes from those very connections that they severed.
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There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who aren't capable of emotions, and people think they're very cold inside.
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The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.
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The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.
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I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist still has a difficult mission, to try to boil down people.
