Catherine Ryan Hyde Quotes
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We would be able to deal with Islam if we were allowed to deal with it in the way we think we should.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.'
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I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
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I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.
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Americans do not have a good track record when it comes to preparing for disasters, unless they see a clear possibility of personally being in harms way.
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What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
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One of my favorite cartoon characters is Snoopy. I love the way he sits and lies on his kennel and contemplates the great things of life.
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Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself.
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The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.
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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
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Modeling wasn't the thing that was going to define me in any way; it was just a way to make a lot of money.
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Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.
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There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.
