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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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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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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Not for a second did I think it was going to turn out this way. The bottom line is an innocent athlete was suspended from competition. You could say it's a victory for USADA (U.S. Anti Doping Agency), but I think it's better to say it's a tragedy for all athletes. I'm innocent.
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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all.
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I love Andre 3000 from OutKast. I think we'd complement each other, but I'm hoping he's got a good sense of humour.
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It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
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There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.
