Ruby Wax Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'
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Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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I've always been very tied to language.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
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When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that I'm not allowed to do that.
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I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
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If you go back and look at President Reagan's speeches, they bring you to tears almost.
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I adore the fact that when I'm driving home from work, as soon as I hit my neighbourhood, I see people I know.
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Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.
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Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.
