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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See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.
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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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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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I've talked to people who say that their music and their creative work is a much needed and appreciated escape, where they don't have to think about the state of the world; they're not even thinking about themselves so much. They're not trying to express their own experiences of that day or relationship strife or anything.
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You're never going to see me playing a buffoon.
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At one point in life, the year of entry and subtraction.
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Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.
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When I talk about celebrities, it's not a dismantling of that human being.
