Bo Ryan Quotes

I'd like to make time slow down.

I find each project, although it's compartmentalized, informs me in some facet. I wake up everyday wanting to be informed.

There's a TV element to everything in my eyes.

Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so.

All my moves were designed to promote the happiness and wellbeing of my family, rather than fame.

I won the first contest I ever entered, when I was 6.

When I am on my board, I always have my ID, ChapStick and maybe a $20 bill, because you never know when you'll need to buy a water or something.

If you go out there and your main purpose is to get a sponsor, then it's not gonna work. Just go out there and have fun. That's how I got sponsored.

Lakers are my boys! I'm 100 percent the biggest Kobe fan on the planet. I text him after every game to tell him what's up.

I skate to anything with a good beat, anything that can get me motivated.

I kind of just put my boards together wherever I feel comfortable that day. It could be on the kitchen table, on the ground, on the couch, wherever.

I'll always have my skate life, but I absolutely like the fun of making movies.

I wasnt particularly funny in high school, but I grew up with three older brothers who were quite funny.

I love B.C., but you know what taxes are like in Canada.

Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.

I think every person in a group has a right to protest something and not like something. I always find it to be interesting when people take that position before they've seen it.

I'm in an odd position because I write across so many genres for so many people and they all influence me, and if I'm going to write as honest an album as possible, it's going to be layered.

I'm a huge Lady GaGa fan - she makes the world a more incredible place.

Nobody works harder than Lady Gaga. Nobody. She is unbelievable. I don't know how she sleeps, or when or if.

The classic, quote/unquote, craft of songwriting still works; it still is relevant.

With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.

I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

Entertainers, athletes, and stars started giving me support.

How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?

I spent Christmas and the next thirty days in the hospital.

I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school.

Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.

Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.

The first five to six years of my life were spent in and out of the hospital.

People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.

Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself.

A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life.

Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.

This brought on the news media, TV crews, interviews, and numerous public appearances.

Perhaps not all spirits are meant for this world, but they pass through anyway and change for the better those which are.

A Gold Glove would be one of the things I would really cherish. When I was younger, I was always smaller. I couldn't hit, so I had to work on defense.

You want to have expectations. I think it makes you work a little bit harder now, and it makes you want to prove to everyone that it wasn't just a one-year thing.

But I feel like I can go out there and do what I need to do.

I think we need to do two things - or three things. One is we need to put a stop on refugees until we can vet.

So now she and I are friends - not with benefits, but memories.

I know I have to stop. We all have to stop. Funny how knowing something's a bad idea doesn't make a difference.

Just because two of the people in this barn have decided to spend their lives together doesn't mean the rest of us are obligated to instantly find our soul mates. It's okay if we just dance.

I'm perfectly happy to color within the network lines when I have to.

I still feel driven to try to make great shows and to make each episode great.

Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.

The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.

I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the audience would want. That's my job, is to anticipate ahead of the audience.

There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.