John Carroll Lynch Quotes
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For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.
Gary Locke -
I could easily go one or two days without realizing that I'm so, so hungry. That's the negative outcome of what I've become.
Takeru Kobayashi -
Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies.
Eddie Murphy -
Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop for the past 10 years. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free.
Wale -
I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.
Val Kilmer
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The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.
Irwin Winkler -
Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
Walter Scott -
God and I were nude.
Vanna Bonta -
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
D. H. Lawrence -
I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.
Kiran Desai
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Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise; I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read, and praise to give.
Ben Jonson -
A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.
Marcus Aurelius -
In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working in newspapers at the copy desk, or delivery boys, and then they would somehow become reporters afterward and learn on the job.
Matt Taibbi -
No man should have a political office because he wants a job.
Franklin Knight Lane -
Taylor Swift dates guys so she can write a breakup song about them. I don't think she's dating for love - I think she's dating for creativity. So let's get her off the market and put her in dating detox. If she really wants love, she has to stop writing music about them.
Patti Stanger -
I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it.
David Hyde Pierce
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Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.
Bill Dedman -
War is not won by victory.
Ernest Hemingway -
It's good to always do some sort of exercise.
Ashley Scott -
If we're all going to die, shouldn't we be enjoying ourselves now?
Richard Linklater -
I know I can get laughs anywhere, in front of any crowd, if I'm given the chance.
Bobby Lee -
I don't go to horror movies. I walked out of 'The Exorcist,' man.
John Carroll Lynch