J. Lynn Quotes

People think they're getting objective information, but they're not. They're getting news wrapped up in opinion.

All we really want in life is to connect to other human beings, and when you desperately want to connect physically to one specific human being and you can't? That's something I find compelling.

It feels to me like everyone is going to do their best work when they feel emotionally safe.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors to find their way. Facilitating their performances is so satisfying for me.

There's so much great TV and I always thought it would be such a fun little sideway to make money and then not have to worry about my films making a lot of money.

I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.

I hope to keep working with television. I wouldn't mind doing more.

I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.

If I don't have to think about the commercial aspect of it, then I feel like I'm going to make better films.

I just really feel so grateful to Sundance because I've always been an artist and I've never been able to make a living at being an artist until Sundance.

I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check in.

I like being able to just turn the microscope on a small number of people, get to know them, drop into their lives for a period of time.

Professional sports is a business.

And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.

Truth is cold and hard but it is also the first step on the path to hope and salvation.

“You have superpowers.” "I don't have supernerves,” she said, “so don't get on them.”

No battle was ever won by wholly sane men.

He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother.

Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.

I am going down first. Of course you're going down first, you're the guy.

There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance.

Come with me. It's so much better than coming alone. (Lucan whispered to Lena)

Even though you're a member of the wrong party, you've got some great ideas.

I'm going to go back and find out where the money is. The money is not getting down there.

Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start.

The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians.

I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines.

Scars are but evidence of life and wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We may not make the same mistakes again.

Scars are but evidence of life.

Sometimes just the tiniest allocation of time spent with a friend, imprints on your mind and gives you something to smile about for the rest of the week, month, or your life!

There is always the personal, simple happiness that doesn't happen.

It always surprised me that I was getting acting work.

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

See what a good actress I am? I'm just typing over and over, "You're a good person, Mary Lynn! Hang in there! You can do it!"

I'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted.

I need to see where I am physically and practicing with NHL players is the best way to find that out.

I like America. I think it's pretty cool.

I like America. I think it's pretty cool. I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort, and so I could remain in a fantasy world.

How precious you are in my life. I am forever grateful that God sent an angel to me. I love you most dearly.

You have captured my soul in a cocoon of love. My heart will be forever yours.

You have touched my heart in so many ways with your gentle tenderness, I am lost forever in your love.

She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.

An apology is the superglue of life! It can repair just about anything!!

People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

Despite tribulation, distress, famine, peril, and sword, God had allowed them all to emerge as conquerors.

I think that's what you say when you can't have something you want, isn't it? You say you don't want it in the first place.

You'll do fine.""What, you're psychic now?""Didn't you know?" he asks seriously. "Must be an aftereffect of the bond.

You know the kind of smile I’m talkin’ about. That flirty, cute, bite-your-bottom lip ‘cause his smile is so stinkin’ perfect—that kind of smile.