Ricky Jay Quotes
I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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One thing I love to do when I'm working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and just run - not for time, not for exertion, but just to get the blood flowing.
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I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.
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We're one of the largest employers in Canada for animation executives, and there is - I think something on the magnitude of $140 million a year be important to the Canadian economy producing animation for Netflix.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
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Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.
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It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
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I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.
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I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.
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I'm pretty boring.
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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
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English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.
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When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
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We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.
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We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back. It's like, 'Wait a second - what happened here?' It was a real learning experience. I've paid my dues, I will tell you that.
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We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.
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I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.
