Kay Ryan Quotes

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.

Kay Ryan

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• As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• A lot of guys and people in our society think that chicks just love dudes with money. Chicks love dudes who are successful who happen to have money - do you know what I mean? Chicks are attracted to dudes that are doing their own thing.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Money
  • Love

• If we're doing a class project, then I'm going to be the one talking and taking the lead. I might not necessarily put all of the work in the project, but I want to help and do as much as I can and get everyone going in the right direction.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Work
  • Help
  • Direction

• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
  • Just
  • Big

• My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • People
  • Understand
  • Crisis

• It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Important
  • Home
  • American

• Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Progress
  • Taxes

• There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Company

• I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Work
  • Running
  • Insanity

• I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Skin
  • Routines
  • Moisture

• There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Love
  • Support
  • Emotional

• Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Great
  • Always
  • Dreams

• We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • People
  • Think
  • Better

• A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Good
  • Men
  • Truth

• Women are always beautiful.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Always

• I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • Up
  • Work
  • Character

• Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Night
  • Red

• I am a big Seth Rollins fan and have been for a long period of time.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Fan
  • Seth Rollins

• Times do keep changing - thank God.

  

  Cokie Roberts
  • God

• Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; But thou, go by. Child, if it were thine error or thy crime I care no longer, being all unblest; Wed whom thou wilt, but I am sick of Time, And I desire to rest. Pass on, weak heart, and leave me where I lie: Go by, go by.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Crime

• Do you realize sufficiently what it means to rule-to rule in a secret society? Not only over the lesser or more important of the populace, but over the best of men, over men of all ranks, nations, and religions, to rule without external force, to unite them indissolubly, to breathe one spirit and soul into them, men distributed over all parts of the world?

  

  Adam Weishaupt
  • World
  • Men
  • Important

• Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.

  

  Bill Dedman

• Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.

  

  Kay Ryan
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Literature