Lynsi Torres Quotes
My dad took me to the racetrack for the first time when I was 2 or 3... Anything with a motor, that was in my blood.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.
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I learned about the market's power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.
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It's still unacceptable for women to have negative emotions, especially anger, and I was trying to write against that.
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I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing.
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My dad took me to the racetrack for the first time when I was 2 or 3... Anything with a motor, that was in my blood.
