Ruth Negga Quotes
There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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Before the operation on my left hand I wasn't able to stretch my fingers open all the way. I've never had very big hands, but I could do the splits with them. Eventually I couldn't any more. I had a twisted tendon in my little finger that prevented me from being able to stretch.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
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I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what you see, I'm afraid, is what you get.
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No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
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If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.
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New is easy. Right is hard.
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Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.
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Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.
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When I'm down or maybe when it's close in the match, I feel like I'm still in it. I don't feel like I'm letting down. Mentally, I'm still really, really tough.
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Look, Americans will go for leadership that makes sense. Our job, you know, as public officials, is not to put our finger in the air. Our job is to listen, and then lead.
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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
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The easiest way to not believe your own hype is to not know what people are saying about you.
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For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?
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There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?
