Ruby Wax Quotes
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
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In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.
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One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
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Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through.
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I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
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I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.
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If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
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I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
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I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
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I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
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My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with.
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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
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Career mothers are not kidding anybody. Being a mom is the hardest job of all. You got to work to rest.
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We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.
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I'm lucky not to have a nine-to-five job.
