Reynolds Price Quotes
As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
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At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
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I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
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What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
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We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.
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I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway.
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While complex acting roles are lacking for actresses, what's even more rare are female directors.
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I think, even though homophobia still exists, there is much more of a dialogue and a taboo around being homophobic.
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I am a family man, and I have to find my priorities. During the season, it is to race. During the off-season, it is to spend time with my family.
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The beginning of wisdom is the awareness that there is insufficient evidence that a god or gods have created us and the recognition that we are responsible in part for our own destiny. Human beings can achieve this good life, but it is by the cultivation of the virtues of intelligence and courage, not faith and obedience, that we will most likely be able to do so.
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It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.
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You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.
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We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.
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My mother sent me to art classes at the age of 11. I began to have kids around me say, 'Will you make drawings for me? Will you make a painting for me?' And it really clicked.
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As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.
