Michael Lynton Quotes
For the most part, Hollywood is very transactional. People want to make movies and television shows.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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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.
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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.
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By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
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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.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.
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I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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I like to get real pretty.
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I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.
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The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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That's probably the best perspective in the park. My favorite one was the strike three pitch he threw Giambi that kind of went straight, cut in and then ran back on the plate for a strike.
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I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.
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I wanted to keep the complexity of the female experience in the film as much as it is in the book, and the subject of not wanting a child is a very interesting subject, one that's not dealt with very much actually.However that complexity was not serving the story of what became the film [The Girl on the Train].
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For the life of me, I'll never understand how you can be an artist but not want people to understand who you are as a person.
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My father... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.
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For the most part, Hollywood is very transactional. People want to make movies and television shows.
