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 find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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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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My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.
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It's crazy that you have to tell your phone or your computer or your house or your car 'It's me!' hundreds of times a day. Wearables will solve that problem.
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Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.
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Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
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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.
