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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If I'm in the airport, people will come up and just hug me because they feel like they can - and that's the greatest. They just want to hug because some place, some memory in their lives, I meant something to them.
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Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.
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People are always looking for alternatives to all-chemical allopathic medicine, and we offer these through minimally-invasive or non-invasive therapies that don’t require surgery.
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When I did play team sports, I was into soccer and hockey. I loved hockey. And then rock climbing became the thing that got me out of Iowa, and I traveled the world for rock climbing. I really loved the, I guess you would say, dirtbag lifestyle of not eating much and traveling the world and slipping into different cultures and just observing.
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I'm not a greedy person, I just want to accomplish so many different things.
