Ryan Merriman Quotes
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This is kind of weird, but I eat lemons with salt as snack. They're so good!
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
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I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.
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What kind of business world are we living in?
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It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.
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I'm definitely an underdog.
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I'm obsessed with the countryside: woods, forests, fields, lakes, mountains. I'm really into folk music and folklore. But more so I'm into electronic music. I'm into bands that have both aspects, like Boards of Canada is a perfect example. You could listen to that type of music running through a woods. It's kind of what I wanted to achieve.
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I tell people I won't vote to go to war unless I'm ready to go or send my kids.
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I feel like people expect a lot from me.
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Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.
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We dream primarily the same way that we have consciousness of the world for the same reason. Basically, that our brains evolve to simulate reality and to control what's happening around us.
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I'm definitely a boot-scootin' kind of guy.
