Amy Ryan Quotes
I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.
Amy Ryan
Quotes to Explore
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
Abhishek Bachchan
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Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
Oren Peli
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
Samira Wiley
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
Yvonne Strahovski
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I love all things Christmas.
Samantha Barks
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
Vernon Howard
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
Randi Weingarten
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
Kate Fleetwood
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
J. H. Wyman
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
Olivia Wilde
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
Lars Ulrich
Metallica
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I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I wish I had brothers and sisters, friends say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I think it must be good to have someone who knew you from the beginning.
Kate Atkinson
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Taking risks and being focused, sometimes, are at odds. Both are required to build a great company.
Andy Dunn
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I really wasted a lot of time in my 20s.
Kristian Nairn
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What was a very private childhood hobby turned into a very a public, professional job, and I think that there's a lot of inhibition that can grow from that.
Adrian Tomine
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A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.
Patrick Chappatte
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I charm in vain; for never again, All keenly as my glance I bend, Will Memory, goddess coy, Embody for my joy Departed days, nor let me gaze On thee, my fairy friend!
Lewis Carroll
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I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.
Amy Ryan
