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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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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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 would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.
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Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.
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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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Because I work with so many people on the east coast, I get some work done before I get the kids up.
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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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Salvation cannot be bought with the currency of obedience; it is purchased by the blood of the Son of God. Thinking that we can trade our good works for salvation is like buying a plane ticket and then supposing we own the airline. Or thinking that after paying rent for our home, we now hold title to the entire planet earth.
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I think women are much stronger than men in society. We take more risks than they do in general.
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I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.
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I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.
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I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.
