Mercedes Ruehl Quotes

I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.

Mercedes Ruehl

• Choices
• Transgender
• Physiological
• Hypothalamus

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• It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

  

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• Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.

  

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• I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

  

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• The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you.

  

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• The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.

  

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• Les plus beaux mots du monde ne sont que de vains sons, si on ne les comprend pas.

  

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• I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.

  

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• Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

  

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• A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

  

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• We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.

  

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• I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of the hypothalamus part of the brain.

  

  Mercedes Ruehl
  • Choices
  • Transgender
  • Physiological