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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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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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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There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.
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This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't.
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I don't really care what others think of me. You're not going to please everybody. I care what I think and what my children and my husband thinks.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.
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Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.
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Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.
