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 like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.
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No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!
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Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.
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I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.
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Berry Gordy has always been this hazy legendary figure that I've known about in my childhood that was responsible for everything that I found important in the world.
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It’s important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that’s all we have.
