Gayle Lynds Quotes
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I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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When you've grown sick of reading and bug-eyed from watching TV, when your friends are all visited out, no words can adequately praise the link to the outside world provided by your parents and family.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
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I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.
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If you only do issue-based drama, you can become a boring wanker.
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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.
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Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
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I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.
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Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user.
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So I don't blame Boies for the decision of the Court at all.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.
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With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one’s logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy-driven denial, the democratic party serves them well.
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I've been on lots of film sets. I've produced films and written films and been around, so it wasn't my first rodeo in terms of that stuff. Nothing particularly surprised me, I have to say. I came in and I enjoyed the first day and I enjoyed the last day.
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Network was just never the right fit with what I think is funny.
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Use plot to buttress a story.
