Lynn Shelton Quotes
By the time I hit college, my secret shame was the reason I was an actor was my own words sort of dried up. I stopped writing. I stopped being able to form my own vision. That's actually what my first feature is about - looking back at two different selves.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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I am a bit of a Pollyanna - I spend most of my day happy.
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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.
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The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
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The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.
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We started the 10/10 objective in 2011, and that time, our turnover was about Rs. 15,000 crore. We would like to have a turnover of Rs. 1,50,000 crore by 2021. This will be through high growth in domestic and international operations as well as through acquisitions.
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If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.
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By the time I hit college, my secret shame was the reason I was an actor was my own words sort of dried up. I stopped writing. I stopped being able to form my own vision. That's actually what my first feature is about - looking back at two different selves.
