Matt Ryan Quotes
I'm constantly trying to mine the DNA of John Constantine and stay true to that character in the comic books.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
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By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.
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The Hubble images far surpassed anything taken by any telescope on Earth.
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Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person.
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Alex has got toughness about him. It's just that you spend so much time trying to find out what other people want, as opposed to doing what you got to do. You're trying to please everybody and do what everybody expects you to do. And the thing is, they ain't under the same gun.
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The Afghan government is much better informed, much more intrusive and ambitious than I had guessed. There are amazing craftsmen in Kabul but few designers and wage rates are astonishingly high - which is a problem when trying to support and promote Afghan craft exports. The community in Murad Khani in the old city - who we are helping to restore their area - have been the best part so far - eccentric, led by a champion wrestler, determined, proud and courageous.
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I'm constantly trying to mine the DNA of John Constantine and stay true to that character in the comic books.
