Ryan North Quotes
The fun thing about writing a book with multiple paths and multiple endings is you really get to explore the characters and figure out their different fates.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.
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Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
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I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!
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I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.
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From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.
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I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
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In 1999, I got fired as coach of New England. In three years in New England, we actually did better than most people think. We were 27-21, won the AFC division title, went to the playoffs twice.
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It's honestly every time that I'm doing something, and every time I visit a station and hear my song on the radio and people buying my stuff, I'm like 'Are you kidding me? This is insane!'
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This game is something Australians really look forward to.
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No matter how much success you're having, you can't continue working together if you can't communicate.
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If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.
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John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.
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Fashion is this obsessive narrative that people don't understand but they can't stop looking at.
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In films of terror, it's often not about being graphic. Or if there is a graphic image, it's extremely swift. Everyone talks about the shower scene in 'Psycho,' but that's the only graphic scene in the entire film.
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For over 35 years, I've been making charitable donations anonymously.
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How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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I can't imagine a more ideal life.
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I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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The fun thing about writing a book with multiple paths and multiple endings is you really get to explore the characters and figure out their different fates.
