Michael Lynton Quotes

For the most part, Hollywood is very transactional. People want to make movies and television shows.

Michael Lynton

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• I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Want
  • Down
  • Mental Illness

• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
  • Guy
  • Change

• I have dedicated many years to economic study, up to the Ph.D. level, to analyze and understand the inherent weaknesses of aid and why aid policies have consistently failed to deliver on economic growth and poverty alleviation.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Up
  • Why
  • Study

• By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Responsibility

• I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Love

• Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Lost
  • Human
  • Statistics

• I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Good
  • American
  • English

• There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Opportunity
  • Right
  • Wait

• I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Want
  • Child
  • Cancer

• I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Think
  • Always
  • Alignment

• I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Successful
  • Wonderful

• You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Life
  • Better
  • Lips

• I like to get real pretty.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Like

• I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Control
  • Kind
  • Would

• The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Great
  • Better
  • Fix

• It is now the scientific consensus that our risk-avoidance mechanism is not mediated by the cognitive modules of our brain, but rather by the emotional ones. This may have made us fit for the Pleistocene era. Our risk machinery is designed to run away from tigers; it is not designed for the information-laden modern world.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • May
  • Brain

• Vtrubique autem orator meminisse debebit actione tota quid finxerit, quoniam solent excidere quae falsa sunt: verumque est illud quod vulgo dicitur, mendacem memorem esse oportere.

  

  Quintilian

• A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • Up
  • Waiting

• Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Mistake

• Liturgy, in truth, is an event by means of which we let ourselves be introduced into the expansive faith and prayer of the Church. This is the reason why the early Christians prayed facing east, in the direction of the rising sun, the symbol of the returning Christ.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Faith

• I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • America
  • Deep

• My favorite part of any military feature, aside from the people themselves, is how clean and organized everything is. I like things clean and organized, and they don't get any cleaner or more organized than they are in any branch of the military.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • People
  • Military

• For the most part, Hollywood is very transactional. People want to make movies and television shows.

  

  Michael Lynton
  • People
  • Television
  • Shows