Lynn Whitfield Quotes
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Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.
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My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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The reason our games generate so much revenue is because we're stupid enough to charge $60 for a box or $50 for a download or something. You need used games because most people can't afford those prices.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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I work out every day. My friends say that I became an actress by chance; I should have become a gym trainer. I am the most grumpiest and irritable person if I don't work out for two days. You cannot have a conversation with me.
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I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
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I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album.
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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
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I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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Love alone was left, as a great image of a dream that was erased.
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We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.
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I put pressure on myself all the time. I felt it so much with 'Sax,' but I had to just let go and enjoy it.
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There's an enormous amount of obliviousness: a desire among young gentrifiers to see only the city they want to see.
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You have to find the place where you abandon everything of yourself. Then you can let something else happen.
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I have always been part of a family with a great appreciation for the arts.
