Taryn Manning Quotes

I have played some very kind and loving character. I don't know why I'm so good at playing bad. I really don't.

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• I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Culture
  • Car
  • Purple

• This town was built on nepotism.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Built
  • Town
  • Nepotism

• I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Up
  • High
  • Girl

• It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • America
  • Change
  • Ignorance

• I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

  

  Iman
  • Father
  • Science
  • Political

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Goal

• Politics is a good thing!

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • Good
  • Politics
  • A Good Thing

• It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Home
  • Year

• What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • War
  • End

• 5-Hour Energy is not an energy drink, it's a focus drink. But we can't say that. The FDA doesn't like the word 'focus.' I have no idea why.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Focus

• What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Great
  • Children
  • Society

• Every note is a lifetime for itself.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Lifetime
  • Itself
  • Note

• The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Politics
  • Bible
  • Special

• When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Conformity

• Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • World
  • Fun
  • Opinion

• America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • World
  • America

• In Garden Party or 40 Days and 40 Nights, I played characters who people dont necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them.

  

  Vinessa Shaw
  • Character
  • Night
  • Party

• And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, 'If you want it bad enough, and you're willing to make the sacrifices, you can do it. But first you have to believe in yourself.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Dad

• I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.

  

  Linda Sue Park
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Remember

• One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • True
  • Kind
  • Wise

• My mother is a beauty.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker
  • Mother

• I have played some very kind and loving character. I don't know why I'm so good at playing bad. I really don't.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Character
  • Kind
  • Knows