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Katherine Ryan Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: canadian
Birth: June 30, 1983

Topics

Job Man Comedy Person Talk Room

There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.

Relationship Time School Me Ambition

Inaugural speeches are supposed to be huge and stirring. Presidents haul our heroes onstage, from George Washington to Martin Luther King Jr. George W. Bush brought the Liberty Bell. They use history to make greatness and achievements seem like something you can just take down from the shelf.

History Greatness King You Down

When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. There were really weird things happening with my nervous system and my heart and stuff, and it didn't look like I was gonna make it, so I was writing really fast, and then I couldn't write anymore.

Live Heart Me Writing Sick Weird

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Hurry Who He Indigestion

'Once' constantly surprises me. I think it's the power of the music and the storytelling that people connect with.

Music Power People Me Think Connect

The Marshall is supposed to be 200 watts, but mine's never worked right; it peaks out at 80.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Never Right Out Mine Peaks Supposed

I grew up in East Germany, so we had to learn Russian in school... everybody hated it. I never thought it would come in handy... And being an actor, I've been able to use it quite a bit.

School Thought Learn Actor Never Up

I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for a moment, breathing softly down. Growing up, the 'Our Father' was lovely, made for me, the 'Hail Mary' was gorgeous, and 'Glory Be to the Father' was an absolute nightmare.

Father Moment Me Growing Up Control

The guys who don't make it through SEAL training are the Rambo wannabes. If you cannot work in a team format but also function autonomously, you won't last for very long.

Work Training Team Long You Through

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

Positive Thoughts Start Negative You

Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.

Literature Shirts About Necessarily

I have an oval-shaped scar on the knuckle of my right index finger from crashing my hand through a light fixture while practicing Elvis Presley moves in college.

Light College Hand Right Through

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