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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It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.
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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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A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
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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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I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and constructed identities.
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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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Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.
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What is correct action in a deteriorating world?
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I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.
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I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.
