Katherine Ryan Quotes
I'm a flirt by nature, and I like flirting with that line of what's passable and what's not, and I genuinely don't believe that I cross it.
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
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'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way.
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I believe that first impressions are very important.
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I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.
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I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?
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Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.
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I don't believe in happy families.
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Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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I don't have the time to steal other people's material even if I wanted to. The reason why these rumors got started is that I don't really contest them because I don't believe they deserve contesting. I really don't.
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I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
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Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.
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The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.
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You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.
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I'm a flirt by nature, and I like flirting with that line of what's passable and what's not, and I genuinely don't believe that I cross it.
