Rick Reilly Quotes
I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.
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I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!
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I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.
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Having spent intimate time with him, meeting in a small group with him, it kind of scares me that he would be in a classroom with girls.
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Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?"No," he said. "They're the ones who are asking for too little."
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I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).
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By the time I was done with the car it looked worse than any typical Indian car that has been driven all its life on reservation roads, which they always say are like government promises - full of holes.
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I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.
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There's too many people that paint with a broad brush that we're all corrupt, we're all amoral. … And having these kinds of things happen, whether it's a Republican or Democratic senator — we certainly have had plenty of Democratic scandals in the past — we need people who are in office who will hold themselves to a little higher standard.
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The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
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My biggest fear is the people I love not knowing how much I love them. I just want to remind people all the time.
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But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.
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Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we're absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.
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[Marriage] was the one thing I didn't want to fail at.
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The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply, statements about it, does fall off. And so one does find that early works are full of energy and also full of vulgarity, crudity, and incompetence, and later works are more carefully finished, and in that sense better literary products. But . . . there's often a freshness that is missing in later works--for every gain there's a loss. I think it evens out in that way.
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Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.
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A complacent player is a lazy player, and a lazy player is a loser.
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I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.
