M. J. Ryan Quotes

Gratitude helps us love well by keeping us focused on the beauty in our relationship and the person we love.

M. J. Ryan

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• Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Country
  • Society
  • Free

• I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Style
  • Driving
  • Aggressive

• I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Up
  • High
  • See

• The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • Heart
  • Culture

• Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Pigs

• I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Singing

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Enemy

• I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Scared
  • Horror
  • Watch

• I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Television

• Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Conscience
  • Nobody
  • Tale

• I was not really as good as I should have been.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Good
  • Should
  • Been

• Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Common
  • Privacy
  • Sitting

• This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Life
  • Me
  • Difference

• Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Age
  • First
  • Ever

• My family understands the pain of struggling with a loved one who's suffering from a blood-related cancer, and we seek to support those who are working to find a cure.

  

  Nadia Bjorlin
  • Family
  • Support
  • Pain

• Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Hand
  • Decision
  • Woman

• Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • Life
  • Women
  • She

• If you lose control of your debt and deficit, you get massive cuts in things such as health and education. You get appalling insecurity, jobs lost, firms going overseas.

  

  David Cameron
  • Education
  • Control
  • Lost

• When you're climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.

  

  Kevin Jorgeson
  • Attitude

• It's harder than it looks to juggle all those things: relationship, movies, YouTube.

  

  Kian Lawley
  • Relationship

• I'm mystified by the stuff that doesn't work. I'm mystified by what's going on in the critical side, too. Stuff I like is getting trashed and stuff that is being praised I think is terrible. I don't really feel in sync with what's happening, but at the same time, what I think keeps me afloat is that I try not to be, and don't want to be, very indulgent. I try to make the films as lean as possible, and to not spend a lot of time crawling up my own ass creatively.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Stuff
  • Terrible
  • Praised

• The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Art
  • Judge
  • Creative

• Gratitude helps us love well by keeping us focused on the beauty in our relationship and the person we love.

  

  M. J. Ryan
  • Relationship
  • Helping
  • Gratitude