Amy Ryan Quotes
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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I don't go into a fight mad. I go into a fight like it's my birthday. I love what I'm doing.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
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I try to write stories that will attract younger readers and make them feel part of a wider readership. I do not feel able to write books that are about, or even for, teenagers; and I am inclined to be suspicious of books which 'target' them.
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To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
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There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.
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I think celebrities suck.
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If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
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I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
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Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
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I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
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I can hit it farther on the moon. But actually, my swing is better here on Earth.
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When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
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I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.
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Skepticism doesn't help you hear.
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I guess I'm inspired by other people who are successful.
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Active management strategies demand uninstitutional behavior from institutions, creating a paradox that few can unravel. Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance of uncomfortably idiosyncratic portfolios, which frequently appear downright imprudent in the eyes of conventional wisdom.
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My goals as an artist have nothing to do with speaking to an audience. I love to have a good time, but when it comes to poetry I'm not really interested in writing poetry that seeks to entertain or operate safely within the mainstream and, to be clear, I'm not disparaging the really phenomenal work that does - it's just not my interest as a poet.
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I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.
