Kyan Douglas Quotes
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I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.
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When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.
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I think quotes are very dangerous things.
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We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.
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The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very accurate.
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The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.
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I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.
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I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.
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I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this difficult, for life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.
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Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.
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The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way we've taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when it's too late.
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Once an artist makes his personal life public, he can't close that door.
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Social media stars are kind of taking the traditional route, like movies.
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Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.
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Unless you're Mary Lou Retton, in the right place at the right time with the right personality, you're not going to be on a Wheaties box and have all these endorsements.
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I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.
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The technical process which is interesting in it’s own right but I think the creative process is what’s more intriguing to me.
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As an actor and an audience member, it's important to remember that the future will further define the meaning of the present with a show like 'Once Upon A Time.' Sometimes we're just collecting dots, and other times we're connecting them, but you know that the dots that are collected will eventually get connected.
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Our Quakers love us. we're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness.
