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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If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.
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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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Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
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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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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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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 don't like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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Best thing for a government to do is to eliminate obstacles like filing registrations, getting licences, and so on... tedious steps slow everything down.
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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.
