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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Nobody writes a book to get rich. It's like speaking.
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My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have not told you the type of dog which I have. Perhaps you even picture Toto, from The Wizard of Oz. But I can tell you, my dog is always with me. WOOF!
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I am of the bridge generation that remembers life before social media permeated everything but cannot imagine life without it now.
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Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
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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.
