John Carroll Lynch Quotes
I never imagined I was going to do movies. My dreams were to become a regional theater actor.
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I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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I never really learned photography.
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Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
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I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.
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The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.
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Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against.
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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.
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Writing bores me so.
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I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.
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As a comic, it's anti-comedy to be known. I think a lot of comedic actors get lost in this world of Hollywood and all this stuff. They lose what brought them there in the first place. I'm very trepidatious about it.
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Even if you're playing the most well-known repertoire under the sun, I still believe you have a responsibility as an artist to tell the audience why you're playing it, what are the key aspects to it, and then throw in a bit about its historical context.
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Everything I do - if I do it, is going to be personal.
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Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interested.
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Whether the Virgin Mary existed, I don't know. But the human need for her to appear in tortilla, that's what inspires my interest.
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Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications.
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I never imagined I was going to do movies. My dreams were to become a regional theater actor.
