Taryn Manning Quotes
The whole business is a gamble. There's no real stability, you're kind of just floating around like a feather your whole life.
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In the mid-1990s, when Russia was undergoing a construction boom, I entered the real estate development market.
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Something like your parents divorcing never quite leaves you. What you thought was real isn't real anymore, and that changes your perspective. It makes you more wary but also means you are better equipped to deal with challenges.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my first record is the cherry on top of a chapter in my life I'll never forget.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.
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You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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My family lived in Thousand Oaks. In 2002, when I was 17, I begged my parents to let me move out. I had money, a real job, and wanted to get my own place.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Whether we work in the private, public, or nonprofit sectors, International Women's Day is a time for us to think about how we can all step up and do everything in our power to help women make real economic progress.
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The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.
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My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.
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When I first started writing, I didn't write about scientists at all. I think I wanted a break from that part of my world.
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I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence.
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The whole business is a gamble. There's no real stability, you're kind of just floating around like a feather your whole life.
