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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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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We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on black populations - that has for example eradicated large numbers of jobs that black people traditionally have been able to count upon and created communities where the tax base is lost now as a result of corporations moving to the third world in order to discover cheap labor.
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I remember when I was a young social worker, the first time I went to the state capital in Arizona, where I eventually served for seven years, I was so nervous to go and lobby my state legislators. Because I only had a master's degree at the time in social work.
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One of my greatest times of inspiration is when I'm traveling or living in a new country - there's a tremendous freedom that comes from being unfettered by your own, familiar culture, and by seeing the world from a different point of view.
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Suicide isn't cowardly. I'll tell you what's cowardly; treating people so badly that they want to end their lives.
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When I talk about celebrities, it's not a dismantling of that human being.
