Taryn Manning Quotes
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
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In the beginning was the Word. Then came the fucking word processor. Then came the thought processor. Then came the death of literature. And so it goes.
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In 1970, at the age of 14, I entered a short story contest offering a grand prize of one dollar. I won. This was my first foray into writing fiction. I loved reading and thought that it shouldn't be so hard to write a story.
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I'm not interested in gigs unless I really want to do them. I walked away from music in 1997, and then there was a greatest hits in 2002. Thank God, it didn't do too well because the record company wouldn't promote it.
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People see me as a theoretician, but my music is also seductive, even spiritual.
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From a guy that still doesn't have his foot in the world, I feel pretty grounded as long as I have music.
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My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.
