Katherine Ryan Quotes
I don't think I spoke to anyone apart from my daughter for the first two years of her life.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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The biggest test for any cricketer in England is the weather.
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The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
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Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
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Mythology contains a rich history of legendary weapons, most famously 'Excalibur,' weapons that could only be used by the pure of heart.
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.
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A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that if, say, Oscar Wilde had lived into his nineties, instead of dying in his forties, he would have been considered a benign, distinguished figure suitable to preside at a school prize-giving or to instruct and exhort scout masters at their jamborees. He might even have been knighted.
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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I don't think I spoke to anyone apart from my daughter for the first two years of her life.
