Jay Ryan Quotes
The network made me join Twitter. I am very scared of social media, and I don't know how to use it, so it's kind of trial and error.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.
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The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America.
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The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become.
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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
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Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.
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And that’s another reason I don’t want contact between your species and mine. You’re all Crazy Eddies. You think every problem has a solution.
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Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
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Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.
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Hâtons-nous aujourd'hui de jouir de la vie. Qui sait si nous serons demain?
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I read a few books but I never really took any lessons. I just listened to records and played along. Initally it's not that easy, but if you do it enough, you find you can actually play things quite easily.
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Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.
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Having a gun in your hand is very empowering.
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As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.
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The network made me join Twitter. I am very scared of social media, and I don't know how to use it, so it's kind of trial and error.
