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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.
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The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.
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Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.
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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.
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God and I were nude.
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Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
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I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.
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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.
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A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.
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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.
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No man should have a political office because he wants a job.
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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.
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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.
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The doer alone learneth.
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In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.
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Sometimes it's good to say no. Sometimes it's good to not act impulsively.
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A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.
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Every system that we build will surprise us with new kinds of flaws until those machines become clever enough to conceal their faults from us.
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I don't go to horror movies. I walked out of 'The Exorcist,' man.
