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Lynn Shelton

"I can't wait to do a fully improvised script again, to find people who are really comfortable and into it. It's about the capabilities of the people you're working with, what are their strengths and weaknesses. Some of the most brilliant actors need the spine of the text to work off of, and there's no shame in that; they're actors, not writers."

Source : "Lynn Shelton On ‘Touchy Feely,’ Improvisation & Having Catherine Keener As A Casting Director". Interview with Oliver Lyttelton, www.indiewire.com. May 2, 2013.

Lynn Shelton

#People Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Weakness Quotes

“In high school, I had a teacher there who was really great to me and with whom I finally dared to admit I wanted to be a writer myself, and we did a project where I wrote terrible, 17-year-old fiction. But I remember a couple of the stories. I'd love it if I could read with pride something that I wrote that long ago, but it hasn't happened yet.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Growing up is such a barbarous business, full of inconvenience... and pimples.”
“Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.”

Source : Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.156, SUNY Press
“Be quick to take advantage of an advantage.”
“Younger adult smokers are the only source of replacement smokers If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry must decline.”
“The terrorists who have succeeded in carrying out spectacular attacks against Western targets in the past have been college-educated, technically proficient men who are capable of manufacturing and deploying chemical, radiological, and biological weapons. Al Qaeda attracts the kind of highly educated men who one day might be able to pull off such an attack.”
“I'm really not feeling one way or the other with comedy or drama, I'm just sort of doing projects that I've been finding really fun to be a part of”
“Today is the first day of the rest of your life, and if you screw that up, you can start again tomorrow.”

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