Guy Gavriel Kay Quotes

Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... all these suggest we value exposure rather more. And instead of challenging this transformation, as they are supposed to - certainly at the more thoughtful edges of the art - novelists are buying into it wholesale.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ArtValueTransformationThinking

I had this thesis that we had entered the experience economy. People were getting married later and starting to value experiences like travel over owning things.

Jennifer Hyman

ExperienceTravelValuePeopleOver

Safety is an illusion, and trying to protect ourselves does nothing more than protect us from experiencing a full, evolved, and juicy life.

Jen Sincero

LifeSafetyTryingIllusionNothing

A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.

Andrew Bird

TimeDayCreativeCityWalking

My first job after graduating was working with Robert Zemeckis. I got a job a week after graduating and moving to L.A. So I got to work on 'What Lies Beneath' and 'Castaway' as a PA, which is basically like a gopher.

Jeff Baena

WorkJobMovingWeekFirstWorking

While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country.

Michael Bennet

EducationProgressThinkDataStatus

The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.

John Podhoretz

GovernmentMeetingDebtNeverRight

When I first came to New York City in 1967, I joined up with Richard Schechner's Performance Group - where we worked in the Performing Garage in SoHo.

Spalding Gray

New YorkCityPerformanceNewGroup

Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.

Simon Van Booy

DayChildWorldParentWillOne Day

Because the Vikings never documented anything - they couldn't read or write - the history is always gonna be a little up in the air.

Travis Fimmel

HistoryNeverWriteAirUpAnything

I'm proud that I've even had a career, but 'proud' isn't the first word I'd use. I feel lucky that I moved to Manchester when I was 12 because I don't think I could have done this in Ireland. And I feel lucky that the government took care of me from the age of 16 to when I signed my first record deal at 19.

Roisin Murphy

AgeGovernmentMeProudThinkCare

In the early days of Pearl Jam, we were caught up in such a whirlwind that I was just trying to keep my head on straight and play music. I didn't have the kind of confidence that other guys in the band did.

Mike McCready

ConfidenceMusicTryingEarlyPlay

When you have great performers and have set your movie in the right direction, it's a beautiful privilege to let the camera watch the action unfold without spoken words.

Luca Guadagnino

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