Lynn Shelton Quotes
I'm drawn again and again to relationships between people who really, really want to connect and just can't get out of their own way to do it.
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When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'
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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
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A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.
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Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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There isn't a country I ain't touch in Africa. I just came back from South of France, I toured China, Japan, wherever you name, 60,000 people come out to see Fat Joe.
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If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.
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The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
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I spent seven months in Africa and came back saying there isn't anything you can say about black people that you couldn't say about, say, pink people except that they're black.
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At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.
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I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.
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You know I was a shy guy and people didn't know that and still don't know it today. I'm sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.
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I love watching people enjoying food. It's very relaxing for me to cook.
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Third World feminism is about feeding people in all their hungers.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
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The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.
Garry Kasparov -
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
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I'm drawn again and again to relationships between people who really, really want to connect and just can't get out of their own way to do it.
