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.
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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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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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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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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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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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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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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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A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.
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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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When we associate with others we really associate with ourselves. We like or dislike in others whatever we like or dislike in ourselves.
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You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.
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The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically.
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I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.
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Of the countless ways to feel old in your 40s, perhaps none is quite as perplexing as seeing a young person trendily decked out in 1980s-style garb and saying to yourself, 'I can't believe that look is back in style. It was bad enough the first time around!'
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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.
