Ruth Gordon Quotes
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To be somebody, you must last.
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Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.
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Get up early in the morning before everybody has breathed up all the good air.
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Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!
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Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.
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The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
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Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.
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Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.
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My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.
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I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.
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A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.
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Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news.
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Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.
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You have to have a talent for having talent.
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Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did -- except me. I had more trouble in my life than anybody. But your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, you'll probably make it through the next one.
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In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.