Taryn Manning Quotes

My dad died when I was 14. It was very sudden, traumatic, and confusing. I always felt I could have gone down a bad road at that point, but I made a choice to be a winner.

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• Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Dad
  • Always
  • Dance

• My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • School
  • Character

• I love my real mom and dad; I love them both equally.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • I Love

• My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• One cool thing is because Mom and Dad aren't into the Hollywood scene, they don't read 'US Weekly' or anything like that. They give me space. They don't care. They just want all of their children to be doing something that they love to do and be able to pay their insurance.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Children
  • Love
  • Dad

• My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Dad
  • Delicate

• According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

  

  Questlove
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Dad

• I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Choices

• I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Together
  • House
  • Lost

• In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Great
  • Dad
  • More

• I got a horse when I was eight or 10 years old. And dad used to take me to the rodeo back home. I got into it big time.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Time
  • Home
  • Dad

• I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Dad
  • Always
  • Kid

• He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Dad
  • Boy
  • Brother

• Being a dad and being in the Red Hot Chili Peppers and all the stuff I have to do... The trumpet requires a lot of diligence, and I haven't had the time.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Red

• Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Books

• When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • America
  • Dad
  • Wanted

• Ice Cube's the coolest dad. A lot of parents - a lot of kids do not think their parents are cool. Oh, no. My dad's cool... You know, I was born in 1991. That's when 'Boyz n the Hood' came out. So I've always see him on TV. I don't see everybody else's dad, you know. So I've always had a sense of, you know, he's cool. He's in the light.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Light

• That driving incident, I did it with my dad.  I'd sit on his lap and I drive.  We're country.

  

  Britney Spears
  • Country
  • Dad
  • Driving

• Public policy is a study in imperfection. It involves imperfect people, with imperfect information, facing deeply imperfect choices - so it's not surprising that they're getting imperfect results.

  

  Jake Sullivan
  • People
  • Study
  • Choices

• Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Great
  • Man
  • First

• Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Free
  • Suffering

• My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the lead characters was named Lark. She decided then she would name me and she stuck to it, and here I am.

  

  Lark Voorhies
  • Movie
  • Mother
  • Name

• I really just choose stories that are compelling, have interesting trends and characters, and hopefully say something larger about society.

  

  David Grann
  • Society
  • Interesting

• My dad died when I was 14. It was very sudden, traumatic, and confusing. I always felt I could have gone down a bad road at that point, but I made a choice to be a winner.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Dad
  • Choices
  • Winner