Taryn Manning Quotes
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
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For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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Celebrate yourself... and stay positive!
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.
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When it grows dark, we always need someone. This thought, the product of anxiety, only comes to me in the evenings, just when I'm about to end my writerly explorations.
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I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.
