Ray Stevenson (George Raymond Stevenson) Quotes

I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.

Ray Stevenson

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• Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.

  

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• The sari's radiance, vigor and variety, produced by a single straight length of cloth, should give us in the West pause and make us think twice about the zipper, the dart and the shoulder pad.

  

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• I don't think you see a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder, for example. And even with the accents.

  

  Ray Stevenson
  • Example
  • Pirate
  • Shoulders