Katherine Ryan

Comedian

1983-06-30

Quotes by Katherine Ryan

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

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• 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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• 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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• The representation of women in hip-hop has long been so flagrantly unkind.

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• I started doing little amateur nights at the comedy club that was right next to the restaurant that I waitressed in when I was in university. I was probably 22 years old. I didn't do it with any intention of making a career out of it; I had just always valued comedy.

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

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