Ryan North Quotes
You can do so much crazy stuff with books that isn't necessarily being done. That's how culture stays alive - by doing new things with it.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
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I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
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I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.
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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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The Tax Division is committed to prosecuting accountants who assist their clients in fraudulent tax schemes.
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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
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It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.
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I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.
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I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.
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I quite like androgyny.
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I think, when I was 25, nobody in the world knew who I was.
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It was all a back-handed blessing, and my friends were the ones who kept the faith, read my work, and urged me to submit it to publishers (by sending it out for me - they would not hear no for an answer.
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Football is about dreams, about feeling a special sensation, giving a surprise, and inspiring joy.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.
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One good thing about being young is that you're not experienced enough to know what can't be done.
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Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part.
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You can do so much crazy stuff with books that isn't necessarily being done. That's how culture stays alive - by doing new things with it.
