Lynn Shelton Quotes
I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.
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I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
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Our contribution purely depends on our consciousness and our willingness to support those in need, to show vulnerability and accept the support of others, to share without expecting the credit, to give it our all and allow our hard work to decide the outcome, to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility.
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I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.
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'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
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One child is never enough for a monarch.
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It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.
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I might not know who I was yesterday or who I'm going to be tomorrow, but I know who I am right now.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
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My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They'd wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up.
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There's a bunch of places in the world I haven't been to, 'cause I can only be on a plane for a little bit. I'm like, 'How long is it to get there? Two days on a plane? What? No.'
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My character and my behavior is not for politics. I say what I think. I'm too liberal.
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Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
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In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.
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I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.
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Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
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My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.
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If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.
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I support the idea that artists have to make a stand. I'm with that - you're putting the discussion on the table and you're letting people know. You're being brave as an artist and responsible to the community.
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There's not many Americans, certainly not many of the teenagers I met when I first went to America, knew anything about blues musicians at all. … They do now, which is very groovy.
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Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
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I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.
