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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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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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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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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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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My friends call me Keith, but you can call me John.
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One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.
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The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go.
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The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
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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.
