Lindy Booth Quotes
I'm terrified of heights, but I think there's something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird's-eye view of the world.
Quotes to Explore
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
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What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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Because I felt so different myself. As if I were charged with cool electricity that washed me down inside and out and at the same time scared me and relieved me. That’s fancy as hell, isn’t it? But it’s fancy because it’s so and not because I want to dress it up for you.
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A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.
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Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
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The character we've always thought of as the Wicked Witch of the West is a green girl who's actually very good, misunderstood, and trying to make her way in the world. She's an outsider looking in, wanting to be loved. That's a universal experience that everyone's felt at some point in their lives.
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One of the beautiful things about the idea of living forever is what that does to your soul and how it changes you.
Nick Willing -
I'm terrified of heights, but I think there's something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird's-eye view of the world.
