Katherine Ryan Quotes
I was born with the confidence of an 89-year-old man. So it's strange when people ask, 'What's it like being a female comedian?' It never occurred to me that I'd be limited as a woman - that I couldn't be a scientist, a doctor, or anything I wanted.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up loving heavy metal and horror movies, and the devil is such a huge presence in both.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.
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Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
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Food does not rank high on my list. I eat to live, and I'm very particular about my diet. It's strictly low fat diet for me.
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Madonna and I worked very closely. I was more like the big sister to her.
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It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.
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I was born with the confidence of an 89-year-old man. So it's strange when people ask, 'What's it like being a female comedian?' It never occurred to me that I'd be limited as a woman - that I couldn't be a scientist, a doctor, or anything I wanted.
