Ryan Gosling Quotes
I'm Canadian. I think that's it. When you're a Canadian, you're always watching America from the outside, from afar.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.
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I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
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I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
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On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.
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It must be so hard trying to figure yourself out in this industry. Justin Bieber has hit rock-bottom with everyone watching him; that is just so tough.
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I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place, and then to the last paragraph where in small type it added the meeting would take place where we were now. I compared this with a prominent report about an SPA rally. This was flagrant bias.'
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I give the degrees of things seen by the eye as the musician does of the sounds heard by the ear.
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How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!
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It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.
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I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil. I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow.
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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There is a new conservative establishment in America, made up of those who claim to be the anti-establishment.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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I'm Canadian. I think that's it. When you're a Canadian, you're always watching America from the outside, from afar.
