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 wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.
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I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.
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When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.
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I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.
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You have to speak your mind, but without being cruel.
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I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.
