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.

Declan Lynch

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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.

  

  Yuna
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  • Music
  • Heart

• 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.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • You
  • End
  • Contract

• I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

  

  Sade Adu
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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.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Man
  • Black
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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.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • America
  • Proud
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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.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • School
  • High
  • Eyes

• The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

  

  B. C. Forbes
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  • Failure
  • Cost

• It's always good to be working.

  

  Ja Rule
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  • Always
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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.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Government
  • End
  • Principles

• 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.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Movie
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Help
  • Play
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• I'm Latin - we start young, honey!

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Start
  • Young
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• Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Knowledge
  • Now
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• In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • School
  • High
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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.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Life
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• Talent is only the starting point.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Talent
  • Point
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• Pity him who lives at homeHappy with his life,Without a dream, a flexing of wings,To make him relinquishEven the warmest ember of his hearth!Pity him who is happy!He lives because life lasts.Nothing within him whispersMore than the primeval law:That life leads to the grave.

  

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  • Life
  • Happy
  • Dream

• As I have said before, our society cannot be truly prosperous until it respects the rights of the most vulnerable among us.

  

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• I like to believe we're always looking to evolve as writers.

  

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• For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.

  

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  • Criticism
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• A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Taken
  • Old
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• I want listeners to feel as though they went through an experience.

  

  Adrian Younge
  • Experience

• Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Never
  • Better
  • Movies

• 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.

  

  Declan Lynch
  • Wonder
  • Sex
  • Movies