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.

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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.
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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.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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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.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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It's always good to be working.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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I'm Latin - we start young, honey!
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Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
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In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.
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Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.
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About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.
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I love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me.
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One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.
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But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.
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My dad set a clear model for me for what manhood was all about.
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I think my favorite song from another artist would have to be 'Superstition' by Stevie Wonder.
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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.