Katherine Ryan Quotes

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Katherine Ryan

Profession : Comedian

Birth : June 30, 1983

My dad's Irish, so I was visiting Ireland a lot as a kid, so it's not totally foreign to me.

Katherine Ryan

When you stand out in a small town or at work,or in your peer group, whatever it is, it feels really awful. Certainly, when you're growing up, you want to be normal. You just want to fit in. Then you realize that maybe fitting in is, in some respects, quite ordinary. I think it's good to put a positive spin on being slightly unique.

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Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media.

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Growing up in Canada, I dated a few ice hockey players.

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Stand-up comedy is not a man's job. It's an alpha job: To be the only person in a room with a microphone who's allowed to talk.

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I feel like I'm always on the right side of wrong and trying to shout out for the underdog.

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Jeremy Corbyn confuses the public because he looks like a librarian and enjoys baking bread.

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Skiing is ridiculous.

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I'd never say something that I didn't feel I could defend.

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My life is so much better with lupus because I know that stress and too much junk food will literally put me in hospital.

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How are people still working with Terry Richardson?

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I'm not interested in younger men for the same reason most women aren't interested in younger men; I don't have time to make an extra packed lunch every morning. Please. I'm busy enough already.

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We don't have 'posh' in Canada. It's just not a thing that exists.

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I always tried to fit in, so I was a cheerleader with the orange skin and white-blonde hair, and Hooters was part of that.

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I think commitment is inextricably linked with success, and rightly or wrongly, people with a fierce commitment to their goals - the Kanyes of this world - are really entertaining.

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My mother was a businesswoman; my grandmother was a businesswoman - it never occurred to me that life might be harder because you're a woman. It wasn't until later and I had a bigger sense of the world that I realised that.

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I know a lot about systemic lupus erythematosus because I have it, too. I was diagnosed through the NHS when I first moved to England in 2008 following months of serious illness.

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Racism is what acquitted O. J. Simpson.

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I was born with the confidence of an 89-year-old man. So it's strange when people ask, 'What's it like being a female comedian?' It never occurred to me that I'd be limited as a woman - that I couldn't be a scientist, a doctor, or anything I wanted.

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I think it's better, if people aren't getting on, that they should divorce.

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