Katherine Ryan Quotes
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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I'll never be Jennifer Lawrence or Tom Cruise, someone who can hold a movie and then be charming and charismatic doing promotion. I haven't got what they've got. But at least I'm now comfortable just being myself.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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There's a lot of buying power from the Middle East. Girls from Dubai want to be able to wear Asos, and you have people travelling all the way to the States just to go shopping.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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I think India's policy that the openness of trade should be carried through a multilateral process is the right one.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.
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Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
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I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
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Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
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I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
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I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.
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A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
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I know very few people who have literally improvised a film from start to finish.
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Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that brought them into being. Independent existence marks the work of art as a product of making; utter dependence upon further acts to keep it in existence marks the state as a product of action.
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Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth Saving in thine own heart.
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Nobody in my family before me ever had anything.
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When I talk about celebrities, it's not a dismantling of that human being.
