Barbara Lynn Quotes
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
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You should seek approval from yourself.
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You are just your intelligence.
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When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.
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I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.
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I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. I guess it would have been a matter of time till I turned around with a gun myself, to go after those coming for us. But I was fortunate. The grenade incident was about an explosion which destroyed a section of my school, from a grenade that me and my cousin detonated by accident. We both lived to tell about it.
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I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?
