John Carroll Lynch Quotes
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There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
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The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.
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I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
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I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
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Viola Davis is incredible - she's kind of the biggest career-wise inspiration for me. Brilliant actor, so intelligent, so strong. The path that she's made is incredible.
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When you like something, you find time to do it.
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Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
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Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.
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Scriabin isn't the sort of composer whom you'd regard as your daily bread, but is a heavy liqueur on which you can get drunk periodically, a poetical drug, a crystal that's easily broken.
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We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.
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Consumer credit is like giving yourself a blood transfusion from your left arm to your right. Nothing is accomplished, except the possibility of spilling blood on the floor. But it's not even that benign.
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Being English definitely gave me some insight into these eccentric Brits puttering around Hollywood.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.
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If I'm going to rehearse, I don't necessarily rehearse in costume.
