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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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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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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For the rest of history, all over the world, people will be trying to save this same dead woman. This woman who just wanted to die.
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Honolulu, Hawaii: (At a luau) '...a unique native stunt though the Hawaiian food we were made to eat was too revolting for words....One got rather tired of the native songs & longed for some of our tunes' (14 April 1920)
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I believe that, no matter how old you are, a woman can look amazing.
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Personally, my favorite 'meat' song is 'We Got It Right.' As soon as it comes on, it transports me to a different place. And I'm really proud of our performance in the studio on that one.
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The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short... Give them enough to take action.
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As I spread my wings in politics, I discovered many Thatcher voters down south who were the same kind of people who loathed her in Scotland. They were puzzled by the Scots' antipathy, given the Falklands war and the strong militaristic history of the Highlands and elsewhere.
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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.
