Lynn Whitfield Quotes
Josephine Baker is such an iconic woman that once you've touched her and she has touched you, it never goes away. I'm stuck with her. I'm sure 50 years from now, when they write my obituary, they will mention that I played Josephine Baker. It'll be on my epitaph.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.
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It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
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I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.
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Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
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We need to work tirelessly to help create new jobs and good jobs here in Florida.
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France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.
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Nancy Reagan actually took some movies that she didn't want to take because they were [with Ronald Reagan] really strapped for cash.
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Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that -- the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.
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Josephine Baker is such an iconic woman that once you've touched her and she has touched you, it never goes away. I'm stuck with her. I'm sure 50 years from now, when they write my obituary, they will mention that I played Josephine Baker. It'll be on my epitaph.
