Kay Ryan Quotes
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.
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Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.
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It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.
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In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
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I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.
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Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
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I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.
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No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.
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Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
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As much as I love Twitter, Twitter feuds aren't going to work. Actually connecting requires true face-to-face time. I believe with all my heart that it's only after working side by side with another person that you earn the right to speak into that person's life.
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Nobody's made an impact like Raina Telgemeier or Kate Beaton. I think that indie creators, people making webcomics and graphic novels, are the ones to watch.
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Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
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I think we look to the military as something that protects our shores.
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If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.
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I don't create from a place of me making art for art's sake, but wanting my work to actually do stuff... tangible things.
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There is an ideal standard somewhere and only that matters and I cannot find it. Hence the aimlessness.
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I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
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It’s important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that’s all we have.
