Ruth Gordon Quotes
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.
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I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.
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Mother was actually a great doer and organizer. All the special occasions were directed by mother.
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Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.
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For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.
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I used to drive myself crazy by thinking, three days later, 'Ugh, why didn't I play it like that? Ugh, now that line makes sense to me.'
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At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.
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I tried to look around to see what I wanted to do. Football was something I knew the most about.
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I've never really been a television watcher, so I never watch comedies.
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I want to run until I can't run.
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We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even if we don't completely understand what we have glimpsed, we are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call art.
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The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.
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The wisdom of taking risks early applies to most aspects of life, whether it be career choices, investments, or dating.
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My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up. … Quite early I began to find a special charm in an unpeopled world … of lava rock and sagebrush desert. … I was often more purely happy at such times than I think I have ever been since.
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Focused intensity is required to win. I can't stress enough that people who took control of their finances and worked their way out of debt got mad. They got sick and tired of being sick and tired! They said, "I've had it!" and went ballistic to change their lives. There is no intellectual exercise where you can academically work your way into wealth; you have to get fired up - There is no energy in logic; this is behavior and motivation modification, and it works.
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I never got a job I didn't create for myself.
