Guy Gavriel Kay Quotes

I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national hero. I'd rather invent a character inspired by him but clearly not identical to him. And then I feel liberated creatively.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: November 7, 1954

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I was very inspired by the videos of the crowds at the Palin rallies.

Jill Sobule

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Almost all government starts at a very local level at some point.

John Hickenlooper

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I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count.

Robert Lloyd

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I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.

Michael Eric Dyson

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I think there's a lot of mental instability in this whole country.

Rose Namajunas

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I'm overjoyed and honored to become a member of the Hollywood Records family. I've admired the careers they've made and can't wait to see how my musical path is paved out.

Lucy Hale

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When interviews are too cosy, I don't enjoy them.

Louis Theroux

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Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we're doing.

Joyce Meyer

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I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

Jonathan Krohn

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I don't think that I'm that easy to live with. I have to be reminded that I can have fun. I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.

Debra Winger

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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Christopher Morley

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The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.

Arthur Kornberg

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