Katherine Ryan Quotes
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Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media.
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Stand-up comedy is not a man's job. It's an alpha job: To be the only person in a room with a microphone who's allowed to talk.
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When you stand out in a small town or at work,or in your peer group, whatever it is, it feels really awful. Certainly, when you're growing up, you want to be normal. You just want to fit in. Then you realize that maybe fitting in is, in some respects, quite ordinary. I think it's good to put a positive spin on being slightly unique.
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If I've got a confidence problem, it's that my self-esteem is entirely too high.
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If you really want to wind up Piers Morgan, send him a pic of Jeremy Clarkson.
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I really loved making my mom laugh, and I knew that she thought that I was funny. It was really valuable, in my home growing up, to be able to have a chat and participate in a conversation and be funny. Whatever I could do to make my mom laugh could either get me out of trouble or just get me more attention or get me respect in the house.
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My dad's Irish, so I was visiting Ireland a lot as a kid, so it's not totally foreign to me.
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I'm from that generation where there aren't that many pictures of me as a baby.
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My mother was a businesswoman; my grandmother was a businesswoman - it never occurred to me that life might be harder because you're a woman. It wasn't until later and I had a bigger sense of the world that I realised that.
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We don't have 'posh' in Canada. It's just not a thing that exists.
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Racism is what acquitted O. J. Simpson.
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The beautiful thing about comedy in the U.K. is that it has a clever twist to it, and when you really break it down, the joke isn't filthy at all: it's clever.
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I was really lucky to have been raised in this really powerful matriarchy where my dad was around, but I was with my mom and my grandma most of the time. They were heavy influences on me. My mother has a career in technology; my grandma sold real estate.
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I was lucky to develop in the U.K. because I find comedy - in addition to being caustic - it's quite literary over here, and alternative comedy isn't so alternative.
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I feel like my comedy voice is to take the news and everything that's happening and put a funny spin on it or to pick out the things I find funny about it.
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I didn't really realise that I was going to have more obstacles because I was a woman. It was never something that I thought about.
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Growing up, I loved comedy even before I knew that you could be a stand-up comedian.
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I thank God every day that there was no YouTube or Twitter when I was a teenager. I would have had a channel, and it would have been mortifying.
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Part of me has always wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe or any Fifties Hollywood starlet. On screen, they seemed so sexy and simple and looked after. In real life, I'm none of those things. But I'd rather be fierce and complicated.
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We don't have glamour models in Canada at all.
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When I talk about celebrities, I don't dislike them - it's what they represent.
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Skiing is ridiculous.
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Christmas coming means one thing for comedians: office party gigs!
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When you're little, every experience writes on the canvas of who you are.