Taryn Manning Quotes
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I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
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Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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I think that when the social stakes for people are higher, how you present yourself may sometimes feel like it's going to inform your destiny. Because if other people regard you in a certain way, they'll want to help you, and you will end up having a career.
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I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
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This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.
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I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.
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But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.
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People who are rooted in the here and now, who are not defeated by their limitations, who don’t compare themselves to others, who confidently advance along their chosen path-such people are happy, such people are truly great.
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Every little kid has always wanted to be a race car driver. This gets some of that out.
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Seungri sounds mournful while T.O.P has a masculine and husky voice. My voice is thin, just like when I talk
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You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one.
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No matter what I do, it somehow comes out right - even if it was a mistake!
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I'm not a greedy person, I just want to accomplish so many different things.
