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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Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.
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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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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
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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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My husband is not a jealous person in any way.
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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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I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.
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You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
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To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.
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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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I think getting up every morning is the most amazing thing any of us do. We know what's out there, and yet we keep going.
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Calling representatives every single day, arranging local community meetings, and marching in the streets every Sunday. It's not the path to glory, but it's absolutely essential to maintaining a democracy under threat.
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The horse world is populated by two kinds of people: those who love horses, and those who exploit horses and the people who love them.
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How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent.
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There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.
