Lynn Whitfield Quotes
Even the toughest people have a backstory, and villains don't feel like they're the bad guys.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
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Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.
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What maintains the marriage and what is it? Only the knowledge of the hearts, that is its beginning and end.
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Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.
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I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk.
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Back when you were doing plays like 'The Miracle Worker,' you had 20, 25 people in the cast. When you go to make the film, that's not such a stretch. But when you're doing plays like 'Proof,' it's just five people or something in the thing, and it gets to be a really difficult re-conception.
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Even the toughest people have a backstory, and villains don't feel like they're the bad guys.
