Mercedes Ruehl Quotes

Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.

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• We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

  

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• I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

  

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• Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.

  

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• For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of me.

  

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• A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.

  

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• If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.

  

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• If I could read any person's mind, it would be my cat's.

  

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• I'm my own person. I'm not a yes person. So I tell it as it is. I tell my opinions and I was always like that. So I think he likes that.

  

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• All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

  

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• The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

  

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• In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns sharply in mid-course, stalls, drifts, starts up again. Nothing is ever known, and inevitably we come to a place quite different from the one we set out for.

  

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• If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

  

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• Courage is doing something despite the fear, and I've worked hard on being a courageous person.

  

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• But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

  

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• I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily.

  

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• (As) a director who is a writer, I have respect for writers, so I'm less likely to step on an idea or a line.

  

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• Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.

  

  Mercedes Ruehl
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