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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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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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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I'm just waiting for the day when my songs aren't flying. Because I kind of believe in Murphy's law - if something can go wrong, it eventually will.
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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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Give me a spirit that on this life's rough seaLoves t' have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind,Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack,And his rapt ship run on her side so lowThat she drinks water, and her keel plows air.
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If you do a character that resonates enough, people are always going to see you as that character. It will just be up to me to make choices where I can flex other muscles.
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When you take a picture of someone, never show it to them right away. If they don't like it, they may erase it.
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In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.
