Ruth Gordon Quotes
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Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
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Don't face the facts.
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If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?
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At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.
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Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.
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Do people get moral when they don't get ahead?
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Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.
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The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?
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I'm sure the way to be happy is to live well beyond your means!
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When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.
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I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.
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Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.
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Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared.
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In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, it meant you were having a face lift.
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So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?
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The good that men do lives after them.
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Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
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Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.
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Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.
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I never got a job I didn't create for myself.
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Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.
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Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully.
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If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts-what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.
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To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.