Ryan North Quotes
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If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.
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It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
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I'm the worst employer I could wish for because I push myself hard.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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I want to serve the people.
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I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
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In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.
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I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
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I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don't like to memorize words.
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Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of card. Once we have them, we are free to play them as we choose.
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O Spirit of the Summertime! Bring back the roses to the dells; The swallow from her distant clime, The honey-bee from drowsy cells. Bring back the friendship of the sun; The gilded evenings, calm and late, When merry children homeward run, And peeping stars bid lovers wait. Bring back the singing; and the scent Of meadowlands at dewy prime;- Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summertime!
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You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea.
