Lynn Shelton Quotes

For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.

Lynn Shelton

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Enough
  • Speak
  • One Word

• I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Pain
  • Water

• Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Very
  • Well
  • Handle

• One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.

  

  Iman
  • Science
  • Political
  • Name

• Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

  

  Saadi
  • Difficult
  • Easy
  • Patience

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Always
  • Chance
  • Door

• And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Work
  • Party
  • Texas

• I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Small
  • Same
  • Company

• Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.

  

  Tara Strong
  • You
  • Play
  • Personality

• 'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • People
  • Past
  • Myself

• To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Poet
  • Philosopher
  • Decide

• I've gotten over that by now. But I remember the first time reading the book, I was like, 'Wait, Jacob's been trying to get Bella this entire time, and he strikes out, so he goes for her child?' I was so confused. It took me a second.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Book

• Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Happy

• Although most executives pay lip service to the idea of hiring for cultural fit, few have the courage or discipline to make it the primary criteria for bringing someone into the company.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Service
  • Courage
  • Discipline

• For me, I worked so hard to get to where I am and I don't ever want to lose sight of being grounded.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Want
  • Hard
  • Worked

• It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Good
  • Culture
  • Positive

• When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Up
  • Money
  • Experience

• Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over there for motivation and use it on Sunday.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Week
  • motivation
  • Sunday

• America has much greatness left in her.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Greatness
  • Her

• I never expected to live this long.

  

  Bob Saget
  • Long
  • Live

• It is only through multilateral institutions that States can hold each other to account. And that makes it very important to organize those institutions in a fair and democratic way, giving the poor and the weak some influence over the actions of the rich and the strong.

  

  Kofi Annan
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Giving

• For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.

  

  Lynn Shelton
  • Important
  • Live
  • Society