Ruth Gordon Quotes
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Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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I've got a lot of other things I want to do.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
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The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
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If you want to provoke, you should provoke someone who is stronger than you, otherwise you are misusing your power.
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When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.
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If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'
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I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor.
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My mum wanted me to go to university.
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My biggest growth has been sitting with things that are uncomfortable and dealing with them.
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Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.
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You can be Hitler and go to confession and say forgive me, Father, I killed six million Jews, and the priest would just be like no problem. Say 10 Heil Marys. And Hitler goes to heaven.
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I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.
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Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.
