Katherine Ryan Quotes
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
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My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out and take on a few expert runs, in a game called 'Let's See if We Can Get Our Inheritance Early.'
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.
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I always have to have a six pack or twelve pack of Entenmann's doughnuts in my house, no other brand.
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I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
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I need to have better knife skills... for vegetables.
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This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.
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If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.
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Thus the story of the facts has to reckon with filters, deferments, partial truths, half lies: from it comes an arduous measurement of time passed that is based completely on the unreliable measuring device of words.
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[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim Crow and segregation. He wasn't directly exposed to that. He was untraumatized.
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It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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Isolated incidents have lateral, lasting implications.
