Amy Ryan Quotes
If your body is excited to do something, that's what you should be doing. Or if it really scares you, you should be doing it.
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Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
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The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.
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I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.
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I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.
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Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.
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Faced with the alternative of saying goodbye to the gold standard, and therefore to his own employment, and goodbye to other people's employment, Mr. Churchill characteristically selected the latter course.
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Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.
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I'm certain about my decision to divorce you. Stop hoping.
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I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.
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From zoning to labor to food safety to insurance, local food systems daily face a phalanx of regulatory hurdles designed and implemented to police industrial food models but which prejudicially wipe out the antidote: appropriate scaled local food systems.
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Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
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I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks.
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The charity work is just a part of what I do. Like... I make time to clean my house, to care for my pets, to visit my extended family, because those things are important to me. Same with helping others.
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Baseball is continuity. Pitch to pitch. Inning to inning. Season to season.
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I love musical theatre. It's a passion of mine.
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I think my parents gave me a unique name and I have created this unique lifestyle that makes me who I am; it's a cool way of living.
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I know what it feels like to walk out in front of a sold-out crowd of a thousand people that are there for you, and how good that feels, but as an opener, you just have to train yourself to think that it's going to be harder.
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If your body is excited to do something, that's what you should be doing. Or if it really scares you, you should be doing it.
