John Carroll Lynch Quotes

I don't go to horror movies. I walked out of 'The Exorcist,' man.

John Carroll Lynch

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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
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Seattle

• 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
  • Negative
  • Hungry
  • Days

• 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
  • Music
  • Learning
  • Quality

• 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
  • People
  • Done
  • History

• 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
  • Music
  • Important
  • Pretty

• I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Children
  • Me
  • Inspire

• The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Quality
  • Stars
  • Strange

• Storytellers have the right to answer any question they choose.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Question
  • Right
  • Choose

• 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
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Ideas

• God and I were nude.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • God

• Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Sex

• I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.

  

  Kiran Desai
  • Different

• 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
  • Live
  • Art
  • Book

• A little time, and thou shalt close thy eyes; and him who has attended thee to thy grave, another soon will lament.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Time
  • Eyes

• 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
  • Up
  • Job
  • College

• Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing. Your ears are more open to someone who is not a cantankerous bastard.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Professional
  • Connection

• No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

  

  Franklin Knight Lane
  • Job
  • Political

• 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
  • Music
  • Writing
  • She

• Yes, President Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, but a hundred years later, the Republican Party wasn't Lincoln's. Richard Nixon became president by courting Americans upset by integration, intentionally fueling the racial divide.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Party

• While I never served in uniform, I fully understand the great service and sacrifice that our brave men and women have given to our country.

  

  Marc Veasey
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Golf
  • Kid
  • Psycho

• When you see my performances, even people that you might have known, like Nicky Barnes in 'American Gangster,' you have to get over the fact that I look like Cuba Gooding, Jr. But once you find truth in the performance, if I'm doing my job right, you believe everything.

  

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.
  • People
  • Believe
  • Job

• Dig your well before you're thirsty.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Thirsty
  • Dig

• I don't go to horror movies. I walked out of 'The Exorcist,' man.

  

  John Carroll Lynch