Katherine Ryan Quotes
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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I've made four films about the destructive nature of relationships, of secrets and lies, and I think I'm no longer interested in that subject - which is a wonderful relief.
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Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
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At heart, I'm a relationship guy, but my adventurous side makes it hard. I hope I'll find a balance.
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I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'
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I don't much like things to go by somebody's name, like the 'Bob Jones Group Jam Band.'
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When I'm not running, I cycle about 30 miles a day. I use the biking as cross training. I'm kind of a maniac. I race everybody.
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I call this The Dictator Syndrome. You see suffering or danger, and in your imagination you see a government program eliminating it. But in the real world the program would operate as you expect only if you were an absolute dictator-having at your disposal all the government's power to compel everyone to do things your way.
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The mind is like an umbrella - it functions best when open.
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The Outsider has his proper place in the Order of Society, as the impractical dreamer.
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Engvall and his wife are packing up their stuff to move, with a U-Haul sitting in their driveway.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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I grew up in Marin County, which is a wealthy suburb of San Francisco.
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In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.
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I'm very careful not to tell a joke just to get a reaction.
