Lynn Johnston Quotes
But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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You can't be in love with a Google search.
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.
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Those who don’t have a dream, it’s okay, it’s okay if you don’t have a dream. You just have to be happy.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I began raising chickens primarily for their eggs, but over the years, I've also grown fond of caring for them and learning about their many different breeds and varieties.
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I suppose it's a sentimental thing, but I wouldn't want to do more 'Lewis' than we did 'Morse' because I do still think of it as an offshoot.
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It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.
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But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy.
