Katherine Ryan Quotes
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
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I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.
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I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.
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I've flown in fish overnight ... because I know people expect us to have fish that stands out. People aren't going to spend $30 on a meal that they can buy at the grocery store.
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Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
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I like hard work and I don’t like pretending things are perfect.
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How are people still working with Terry Richardson?
