Kay Ryan Quotes
One can't work by limelight. A bowlful right at one's elbow produces no more than a baleful glow against the kitchen table. The fruit purveyors whole unstable pyramid doesn't equal what daylight did.
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
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I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining room table, gave me a stack of paper and said, 'Play like you're a writer.'
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If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't know why. It's a little sick and demented.
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Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.
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I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.
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My father was very chic. My mum was always encouraging me. Some parents would say, 'Why don't you be a lawyer, a doctor, or something more important?' They never said that.
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As woman was the first to be tempted, so did God's message of grace come first to a woman, and each time woman's assent determined the destiny of humanity as a whole.
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Poisoning rarely happens in a well-managed kitchen.
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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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One can't work by limelight. A bowlful right at one's elbow produces no more than a baleful glow against the kitchen table. The fruit purveyors whole unstable pyramid doesn't equal what daylight did.
