Matt Ryan Quotes
You can't please everyone, and you have to trust your instincts, and you have to do your work and throw yourself in there and trust your instincts, and just trust that you're doing a good job that I can be proud of as well.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.
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Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
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My legs are really long and that's cool apparently, but I'm totally klutzy. I mean, I'm like Bambi. I fall all over myself because I can't control my arms and my really long legs.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
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You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.
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Not everyone who goes to Washington becomes Washington.
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You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.
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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
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You can't please everyone, and you have to trust your instincts, and you have to do your work and throw yourself in there and trust your instincts, and just trust that you're doing a good job that I can be proud of as well.
