Kay Ryan Quotes
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.
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Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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I have absolutely no idea about space exploration. I'm a software guy. But because I'm a non-expert, I've been able to bring the software concept of modularity into the space sector, which was never done before.
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You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!
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I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.
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As a child, I used 'gay' as a bad word, as in, 'That's so gay.' All my friends did.
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I'm quite calm when all is well.
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The polished executive is ultimately the happy executive who can walk gracefully through life.
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They're going to fall off of playground equipment no matter what the circumstances.
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Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.
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Males and females are unique and different, because their brains are different. There's not a limitation on girls. My grandmother was very strong, and so was my mother. She also knew what it meant to be a woman and wife and was very successful at it.
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I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.
