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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Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.
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It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears.
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Donald Trump's promised the moon. Now he has power. He's going to fail to deliver. He's not going to be able to bring a bunch of coal jobs back and a bunch of factory jobs back in this global economy. Period. Because you can't. It's not going to happen.
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Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to fantasize and to invent.
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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
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It takes a long time to realize a situation is for real, and then you finally face it.
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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.
