Lynn Collins Quotes
Every role that you accept makes you grow in some way. It's part of the creative process.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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Going to the Super Bowl is not the reward. It's playing really well and winning.
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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.
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I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T: teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
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I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.
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What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.
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I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.
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Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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Top knots are the easiest thing to create.
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Diversity requires commitment. Achieving the superior performance diversity can produce needs further action - most notably, a commitment to develop a culture of inclusion. People do not just need to be different, they need to be fully involved and feel their voices are heard.
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I feel very connected to New Jersey.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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Estonians are much more used to Internet banking rather than an online credit card.
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Every role that you accept makes you grow in some way. It's part of the creative process.
