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.

Katherine Ryan

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• Confidence

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• Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Imagination
  • Enemy
  • Politics

• 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.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Great
  • Support
  • Going

• I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

  

  Kate Moss
  • You
  • Never
  • Look

• I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Good
  • Never
  • Meditation

• 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.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Time
  • God
  • Heart

• I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Play
  • Like
  • Someone

• Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Age
  • Stop
  • Someone

• 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.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • Great
  • Long
  • Song

• I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Sailing

• I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Sunday
  • Superstitions
  • Socks

• A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Man
  • Living
  • Go

• 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.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Art
  • Soul

• 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.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Knowledge
  • Thing
  • Teaching

• Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Sometimes
  • Very
  • Embarrassed

• 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.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • World
  • Songs

• 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.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Know

• We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living in the woods off-grid, but they're spending all their time maintaining that, and they don't have much time left over for anything else.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• 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.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Faith
  • Kid
  • Reasons

• The last thing I want is for people to say that the music is nice. It's not nice. It sounds good, but it's got grit, and it's got edge. It never veers into sweet.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I was very young, and I remember this heated, passionate argument and trying to figure out some place called Vietnam, something called a Watergate, and some guy named Gerald Ford who my dad knew who had just become president, and how all these things fit together.

  

  Bill Huizenga
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Together

• I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Up
  • Deep

• I think if people were to look at badminton and tennis, they'd see they're actually very similar; the profile would increase, and we might be in a better position as a sport.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Better
  • Tennis

• Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Shy
  • Fancy

• 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.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • People
  • Confidence