Ruth Gordon Quotes
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There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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I remember taking my mom and dad to the premiere of 'The Inbetweeners Movie' and being really nervous. My mom was like, 'Laura, don't worry: I've watched all of the first series of the TV show, so I understand what this is going to be like.'
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.
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With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.
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It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.
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Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.
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Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
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I am not taking anything for granted.
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I really think I'd have enjoyed the life of a Regency buck.
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I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.
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Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.
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Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.
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I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.
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I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.
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A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.
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In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
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I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director's talent scares me. I admit that they're more intelligent than me, and I submit to that, as an assistant director does. Even when I have suggestions to make, I don't state them strongly.
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My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.
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You have to have a talent for having talent.
