Ruth Gordon Quotes
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
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If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.
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I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.
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I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken.
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I think mobile advertising is going to be huge.
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The power to investigate is a great public trust.
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I always create book soundtracks to capture the overall mood I'm going for and listen to them as I write. Those songs and scores really fuse with the scenes in my mind.
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As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.
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I'm still pulled over... We were nominated for two Oscars for 'Monster's Ball,' and I almost didn't make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills.
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If there are cracks in your armor, your opponent is going to find them.
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I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy, my pain, my anger.
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I never go into a scene - ever, ever, ever - thinking, I have to make myself more empathetic toward the audience. Once you start doing that, you get into really dangerous territory. I think you start to become kind of untrue to the character.
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Remember, the goal of structured futures thinking is to come up with a picture of possible futures that will help to inform strategic decisions.
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They're gonna try to tell you no, shatter all your dreams. But you gotta get up and go and think of better things.
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Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.
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To Death I yield, but not to Doubt, who slays before!
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I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.