Taryn Manning Quotes
My whole thing is I like to hang around winners, I like winning spirits, I have zero tolerance for jealousy.
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All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
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I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
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I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
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Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera.
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Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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I'm a religious broadcaster.
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I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.
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I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.
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I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.
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The biggest picture you see is making it to the Super Bowl and winning it. There are a lot of guys who have played 14, 15, 16 years and never been there.
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When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds. Otherwise you become your own connoisseur.
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You write in songs what you're too scared to write in real life, and then you sing the songs to loads of people instead of telling it to the person you should be telling it to... Songs are a great way of dealing with those issues but kind of a coward's way as well.
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Spring, you are a pinking shears: you cut fresh edges on the world.
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My whole thing is I like to hang around winners, I like winning spirits, I have zero tolerance for jealousy.
