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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Maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead. These things happen. Anyway, after that, remembering Marie meant nothing to me. That seemed perfectly normal to me, since I understood very well that people would forget me when I was dead.
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A fraudulent vote is a stolen vote. It steals a vote from the thin air and nullifies the legal and legitimate vote of a tax-paying citizen, whose rights to a fair election shouldn’t be tampered with. Winning an election is important, but winning it honestly is imperative in a Constitutional Republic.
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I'm in a profession with a dismal success rate, in an academic field with a dismal hiring rate. And I don't write, really, about any of that - rather the institutional structures I've negotiated my way through, with healthy doses of luck, provide a breathing, parasitic glimpse into the bureaucratic monolith of the creative-degree machine.
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I need to fall in love with someone. Sorry - I mean fall in love with something. I need to wake myself up.
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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.
