Mercedes Ruehl Quotes
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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
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Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
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A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
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I own a Hangman jumper, which looks like a scarf, but that's what it's called. It cost a fortune, but it was worth it.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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As a boy, I was a member of a club run by the famous reptile showman Ross Allen, and the club sent its members pseudoscientific papers mimeographed on construction paper with a three-hole punch.
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I really wanted to be a writer.
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I had to spend a few years learning how to do movies. I wasn't really good at that. I was a theatre actor first and foremost. So I took my time learning that.
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In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.
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I started boxing for exercise, and on the very first day, the trainer got in the ring with me and said, 'Whoever controls the breathing in the ring controls the fight.' I immediately passed out.
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I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
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I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!
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Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I've ever seen. It's totally unrealistic. There are beautiful women everywhere.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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A frame of adamant, a soul of fire,No dangers fright him, and no labors tire.
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I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.
