Katherine Ryan Quotes
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My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were just expecting this to happen; of course, nothing was happening. And then we kept begging, bribing, cajoling, anything - threatening to adopt our own grandchildren - and finally, we got some grandchildren.
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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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Be curious, not judgmental.
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It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One.
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There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice.
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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
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When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.
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It's important for people to recognize that they shouldn't ignore symptoms like shortness of breath or a cough that won't go away, because these may be signs of COPD.
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You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.
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Nothing is wasted.
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I liked Michael Jackson and used to practice his steps. I enjoy dancing!
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Around here, ma’am, if folks got they mouth open, if they ain’t eating then they lying.
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One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've been doing they weren't sure it was right - lambies all over the world.
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Give time for a worthy cause (with eagerness) - you will be worthy and richly rewarded.
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Serious reflexion about one's own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him. (This is one of the strange privileges of friendship.)
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(Never thought I'd be telling Malcolm and Ilya the same thing...
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Hope is a crazy thing. It will make you believe.
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No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.
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Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable.
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Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.
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Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the benchmarks are 'Mrs. Dalloway,' 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando,' all of which have time as a central conceit.
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I'm nearly see-through. Like a jellyfish.
