Lynn Whitfield Quotes
A spiritual relationship to me is much more about making your own connection to the divinity that you believe in and much less about the person - the shepherd - who's overseeing it all.
Quotes to Explore
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I mostly play my dynasty or against someone in the hotel. I don't really like online games. I can't stand people yelling in my ear over a headset. I'd rather just play someone like Dwight Howard out in Orlando or people back home. For games like that, it's cool, but just signing on and playing random people, I hate it.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.
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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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To obey a rule, to make a report, to give an order, to play a game of chess, are customs (uses, institutions)
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When I go see an R-rated horror movie, I want lots of violence.
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I knew that I always wanted to keep making music, but I knew that comics needed to be a part of my life.
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I come from a non-musical family.
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
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A spiritual relationship to me is much more about making your own connection to the divinity that you believe in and much less about the person - the shepherd - who's overseeing it all.
