Taryn Manning Quotes
Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas.
Quotes to Explore
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When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.'
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Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
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Now we have new tools for exploring the deep and have to pull together a deep exploration program that takes advantage of them.
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When in doubt, do it.
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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
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This is why my art is about violence. Because I was subjected to so much of it as a kid. After that, and a lot of thinking, I became less violent. I realized that there must be other ways. So, I started to pursue them.
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I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.
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I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.
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For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.
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We do have the power to save one another...
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Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I'm not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut.
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As a matter of fact, I deliberately look for the mundane, because I feel these stories are ignored. The most influential things that happen to virtually all of us are the things that happen on a daily basis. Not the traumas.
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I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture; I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way.
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Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas.
