Katherine Ryan Quotes
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If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
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I like 'Notting Hill.' If you can do a movie that's simple, but do it well, there's room for that.
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I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name.
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You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don't make good on the threats, you're asking for worse behavior next time.
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We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that '9/11'? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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I'm a single mother. It's silly to turn down work.
