Michelle Ryan Quotes
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I used to be a night owl. I no longer am a night owl.
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I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.
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I have always believed that what goes around comes around.
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Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.
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Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.
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The first two years I was on 'MADtv' were really, really fun. We always thought it was 'Saturday Night Live's very nice, slightly asthmatic, shorter cousin.
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The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.
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I'm kind of used to being around guys on set, and I grew up with a brother who treated me like I was a boy.
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People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was.
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I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.
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Herbs deserve to be used much more liberally.
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I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch.
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Besides, isn't there something in the book of rules about a man may not marry his cousin? Or am I thinking of grandmothers?
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I come from a family with a really strong work ethic - not just my parents, but my aunts, uncles and cousins. It rubbed off on me. I have a cousin in The Bronx who says I'm like the longshoreman of actors. I am a worker.
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In the early '90s, my cousin gave me a Snoop Dogg cassette tape, and the rawness of the lyrics were something new to me.
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Ian Fleming was my cousin, you know. He was in naval intelligence.
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I actually didn't have a quincenera, but I did get to take part in one for my cousin. I've just never really been into parties.
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I'm not an immigrant - I was born and raised in New York. My parents are Puerto Rican, and Puerto Rico is a part of the U.S., for the people that don't know. So my whole life, I've identified as an American. There are times when I've gone to Puerto Rico, and there, I'm seen as the American cousin.
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I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. I guess it would have been a matter of time till I turned around with a gun myself, to go after those coming for us. But I was fortunate. The grenade incident was about an explosion which destroyed a section of my school, from a grenade that me and my cousin detonated by accident. We both lived to tell about it.
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To understand my feelings — and my conception of the role of Secretary General — the nature of my religious and cultural background must first be understood. I should therefore like to outline not only my beliefs but also my conception of human institutions and of the human situation itself.
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I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam.
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I like the dirty venues better - Brixton Jams is like home.
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Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.
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Most of my cousins are boys, so I'm used to being around boys.
