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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The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.
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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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People, even independently minded people, do to an extent draw their impressions from what they are told, especially if they are told it incessantly by newspapers.
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I think, in the U.S., we have such a focus on the physicality, on being the best athlete, that it sort of overshadows the football aspect of it.
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We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations
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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.
