Lynn Whitfield Quotes
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Sometimes, all the interviews, those are the toughest thing for me, but once you really start to do it a lot and start to get used to it, I can find some fun in those parts, too. Because playing golf is the easiest thing for me, and that's something I'm so used to; that's why it was always easy.
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My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.
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My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.
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Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
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There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
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Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.
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This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job.
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I do think that character types trend. As a female comedian, the parts that come my way are often terrible women.
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To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.
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I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.
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I am very loyal to the women I am fully licensed to.
