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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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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For that river of red could be the death of me.God, give me strength and keep reminding meThat blood is thicker than water.Oh, but love is thicker than blood.And if blood is thicker than water,Then what are we fighting for?We're all sons and daughtersOf something that means so much more.
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Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
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Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
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I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.
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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.
