Ruth Gordon Quotes
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I just wanted to be like J.Lo when I started. The last thing I want to be is a model-slash-actress. But I love actress-slash-musicians.
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When we have sealed the outer border and thus stopped the illegal migration, we can talk about any solution.
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.
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You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another character, and it's awesome.
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Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
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Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'
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People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.
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We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.
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Give back in some way. Always be thoughtful of others.
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You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.
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We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
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When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, 'This is one of the great ones.'
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There may be many Big Bangs that happened at various and far-flung locations, each creating its own swelling, spatial expanse, each creating a universe - our universe being the result of only one of those Big Bangs.
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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Team competition is my priority.
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No one knows my gender more than I do. You do not know my gender better than I do. A doctor doesn't know it better than I do. My parents don't know it better than I do. No one experiences my gender in the way that I experience it.
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In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.
