Declan Lynch Quotes
I just wonder what has been the effect on the human soul of nearly a century in which we have regarded sex on screen as generally better than the sex we actually have, the sex which is, in fact, much better than anything we have seen in the movies, becuase it's sex, after all, and in the movies, it isn't.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
-
Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
-
What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part.
-
I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
-
I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
-
I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
-
I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
-
If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
-
I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
-
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
-
It's always good to be working.
-
I never like to wear too much makeup, and sometimes the best makeup is when it's not too perfect. I like to sometimes apply my makeup with my fingers.
-
Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.
-
I received so many hate letters when I breast-fed a starving baby in Africa. I was in Sierra Leone in 2009 and I was weaning my child at that time - she was not there with me. There was a hungry baby who was crying because his mother had no milk, and I thought, 'Why throw away my milk if I can give it to a baby who needs it?'
-
The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.
-
I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
-
If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
-
I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
-
I'm Latin - we start young, honey!
-
I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question. It's unanswerable and irrelevant to my life, so I put it in the category of things I can't worry about.
-
I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
-
They say my verse is sad: no wonder.Its narrow measure spansRue for eternity, and sorrowNot mine, but man's.This is for all ill-treated fellowsUnborn and unbegot,For them to read when they're in troubleAnd I am not.
-
I just wonder what has been the effect on the human soul of nearly a century in which we have regarded sex on screen as generally better than the sex we actually have, the sex which is, in fact, much better than anything we have seen in the movies, becuase it's sex, after all, and in the movies, it isn't.
