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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It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.
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We are the actors and the audience as well, all of us. And the critics. We are also the critics.
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The words that I'm most happy with are the ones that come from my subconscious rather than my conscious. They just feel right. I think that's the same with music, really. If you're doing an album, there's ten or eleven sets of lyrics, so you get to the point of inspiration ten or eleven times - it's difficult.
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I'm almost 60. I've been doing this for a while. In order to do this for that long, you have to make decisions based on lots and lots of different criteria, you know. I mean, the criteria has to shift, especially if you're an actress.
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I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.
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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.
