Guy Gavriel Kay Quotes

Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.

Guy Gavriel Kay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PastWorldCreatingPrivacyEscape

I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.

John Frusciante

MusicPeoplePlayListenIndustry

Donald Trump has added a whole different factor that we've never seen before, but the audience loves it. We've seen the energy around our state, so many crowds coming; it's good for democracy to have so many people engaged.

Ronna McDaniel

GoodPeopleDemocracyEnergyNever

There's a misconception in my opinion... and it's that we Latinos have to go do an American album, an English album, an Anglo production, to cross over.

Romeo Santos

OpinionAmericanGoOverProduction

In a strange way, Louise Erdrich is perhaps our least famous great American writer; she is not reclusive, but she is reticent, and her public appearances give the impression of a carefully controlled performance. But Erdrich has also shared many of her most intimate emotions and experiences, in some form, in her novels.

Rumaan Alam

GreatPerformanceAmericanEmotions

I've never had any fear in my entire career.

Jose Aldo

FearCareerNeverAnyHadEntire

My mom was a rescue veterinarian, and I grew up helping her nurse injured animals back to health. Any deer hit by a car, fox caught in a trap, whatever it was that got hurt, everyone brought them to my mom.

Johnny Iuzzini

CarHealthMomHurtBackFox

I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want to pigeon myself, so I always like to surprise myself. I believe in versatility and so I would play anything as long as it was a challenge.

Archie Panjabi

MyselfChallengeNew ThingsMeFeel

When you win, everything is everything. But when you lose, it's all about Allen Iverson and Larry Brown. When we win, I know that I get the praise and Larry Brown gets the praise, but when we lose, it's on me and Larry Brown. That's something that I have to learn to accept and deal with.

Allen Iverson

MeWinLearnYouLoseKnow

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

Wilma Rudolph

MotherWalkMeDoctorNeverAgain

It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did.

Paul Westerberg

FunEnjoyMeanAlwaysTurnUp

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

Tyler Perry

ForgivenessJourneyPeoplePowerful

Frankly, seeing my plays with an audience is something I do with gritted teeth; I find the experience very difficult. I love the moment when you have just the dress rehearsal, when no one's there; that's kind of the peak to me. When people start filing in, I like to file out.

Richard Greenberg

LoveMomentExperienceDressPeople

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