Ryan Shuck Quotes
When I started playing music, it was natural for me to make passionate, heavy, electro rock. It was in my musical DNA.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.
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I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
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It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.
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The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see.
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Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner's history.
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To be rejected on account of old age may or may not feel the same as being rejected on the basis of race or sex. But it is clearly unjust and dehumanizing, and the law should take it more seriously than it does.
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The tomb sits on a large marble platform, called a plinth. At each corner of this platform is a minaret (a tall, narrow tower from which a Muslim calls the devout to prayer). It is this building which is called the Taj Mahal, although the name often refers to the whole complex.
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The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.
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It's nice that we have all these different films.
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If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.
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My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it's just kind of been like my habitat.
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There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.
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I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.
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I try to be a good father, and my kids are the most important thing in my life.
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It isn't necessary to be an untouchable rock-icon guy surrounded by bodyguards and be ushered in and out and have everyone do everything for you. It isn't necessary to change the way you present your band to the public just because you're successful. That happened a lot in the '80s: there was a school of thought that said people would like you more if you acted like you were the unattainable star.
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When I started playing music, it was natural for me to make passionate, heavy, electro rock. It was in my musical DNA.
