Taryn Manning Quotes
There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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I feel for the overly thin women as I do for the overweight women.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.
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'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.
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I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.
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MMA has the rudest, most negative, dumbest, ignorant fans in the world - but it also has the most passionate fans in the world.
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Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing the 'structures' that underlie complex situations, and for discerning high from low leverage change. That is, by seeing wholes we learn how to foster health. To do so, systems thinking offers a language that begins by restructuring how we think.
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A person can't help their birth.
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After doing the first couple scenes and I got used to being in front of a few people it got easier and easier. In Chasing Amy, I wasn't nervous at all. And in Dogma, the same.
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All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.
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There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.
