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
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
Ian Mcewan -
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 -
I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
Yvonne Strahovski -
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 -
I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
Taron Egerton -
Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
Harbhajan Singh
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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.
Eden Robinson -
I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
Garrett Neff -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
Jackie Chan -
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 -
As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
Fat Joe -
Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
Hamza Yusuf -
It's a false assumption that people with a lot of money have a lot of free time to shop.
Natalie Massenet -
I've always found the rain very calming.
Venus Williams
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In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.
T. R. Knight -
I'd like to do a kind of 'Sunday Night At The Palladium'-style variety show on the BBC.
Anton du Beke -
By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there.
Jonathan Kozol -
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