Lynn Collins Quotes
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don't care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you're going to be down in a second.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.
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There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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Although skin color is undoubtedly the most salient signal of racial identity in America, other actual or imagined bodily features have also been seen as distinctive markers of Negritude. These include the shapes of heads, feet, lips, and noses as well as the texture of hair.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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Hey, a woman changed her mind - what else is new?
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Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There's something mindless and hands-on about cooking, which makes it feel like the very opposite of writing, which is heady but inactive.
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[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.
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Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.
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I think Andrew Stanton is such an amazing, creative mind.
