Jeri Ryan Quotes
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I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
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Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I started painting graffiti in the classic New York style of big letters and characters but I was never very good at it.
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I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.
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Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.
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The people that live in my hometown do not walk along the street with smiles on their faces. It is a desperate place, but I got out.
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I'm not filthy rich! I'm not as rich as people think. It's funny, isn't it?
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A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.
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I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
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I always go into a character thinking, 'If it scares me, I can do it.'
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But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.
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Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.
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Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?
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It can bum you out when your intentions aren't, like, translated properly.
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The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode - an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the storm clouds of war gathering ominously in the background... For my money, few periods are so replete with human interest.
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If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.
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I'm not so widely known that I'm going to be pigeonholed.
