Taryn Manning Quotes
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
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I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.
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If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little kid.
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Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.
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I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.
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The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
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My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.
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When you're 25 or 30, you know, you can't wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.
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There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.
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The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.
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Even though it is, properly speaking, a postprediction, in the sense that the experiment was made before the theory, the fact that gravity is a consequence of string theory, to me, is one of the greatest theoretical insights ever.
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Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other.
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Most of your day is spent working, and being in a band is no different. We're just business travelers in a way.
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I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.
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Russia is not our friend.
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I like to contribute. Even in my bands, I can't really just be the singer.
