Ruth Gordon Quotes
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.
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To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
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Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.
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To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty.
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Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.
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Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at.
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I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.
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I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family.
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A strong player, which has the sufficient critical mass, can withhold pressure better and create a more stable environment that benefits shareholders as well as employees.
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An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either.
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I don't like publicity, being in the limelight.
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Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
