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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I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.
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I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.
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I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people.
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I can pretty much spend an entire week talking about how the writing process works, to be honest! It can really vary from project to project and is often dependent on when you're brought on board, the genre, the platform and the narrative desires of the project.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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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.
