Lynn Whitfield Quotes
At consignment shops, I can collect things reasonably, and it's joyful. My dining room table was $75, and I'm so proud. It's beautiful.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?
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Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.
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Nowadays I imagine people find freer and more accepting venues in blogs, on Tumblr and Instagram and Facebook, in the riot of shouting that trails in the wake of every news story. So there's always the pandemonium of the Internet, if you need to get your lunatic opinions out in public. I find most of that stuff a little insane-making and my preference is to encounter personal essays in the relatively sedate and stable universe of print, in literary quarterlies, magazines and books. But I'm sure you can find plenty of good stuff in lonely outposts all across the World Wide Web.
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When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
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When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you're not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing; it's getting too comfortable.
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At consignment shops, I can collect things reasonably, and it's joyful. My dining room table was $75, and I'm so proud. It's beautiful.
