Guy Gavriel Kay Quotes

When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history in a fantasy setting, we are acknowledging that this educated guesswork, invention, fantasy underlie our treatment of the past and its peoples - and we are not claiming a right to do with them as we will.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap credit, and they need it for at least two or three years. Importantly, they also need serial pleasant surprises in such critical variables as global GNP growth.

Jeremy Grantham

GrowthTogetherAnimalFreeCredit

For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work.

John Doar

WorkBlackStudentSouthwestExample

Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts.

Andy Behrman

New YorkThoughtsNightFlyingTrain

I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even though I really am sort of an upbeat guy. It's an honest descent into darkness. And you can't have the joy without the grief - it's why we listen to Mozart's 'Requiem.'

Andre Dubus III

GriefDarknessJoyMeThinkYou

I won't stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so.

Jeff Merkley

LifeOpportunityJobBetterFighting

I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one.

Jean-Marie Messier

I AmHollywoodEverJewAm

I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand.

Tracey Gold

PeopleDriveYouLookPersonKnow

Default choices often remain unchanged for no reason other than being the default, either because of this lack of information or humans' status quo bias.

Marvin Ammori

ChoicesInformationBiasStatus Quo

To be an actor wasn't something that seemed realistic. I started late; I was about 19.

Diego Klattenhoff

LateActorRealisticSomethingAbout

Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.

Brad Holland

LifeArtSchoolHigh SchoolHigh

We need to convert the extraordinary goodwill between India and Russia into a thriving, visible, vigorous, and mutually beneficial economic relationship.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

RelationshipIndiaNeedExtraordinary

On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.

Philippe Petit

I AmCircusMasterWithinHighAble

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