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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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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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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One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'
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One of the biggest gaps in sports is the difference between the winning and losing teams of the Super Bowl. They don't invite the losing team to the White House. They don't have parades for them. They don't throw confetti on them.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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What the deuce is to do now?
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My whole thing is I like to hang around winners, I like winning spirits, I have zero tolerance for jealousy.
