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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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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Being an M.C. is all about just going for the throat.
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The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others
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It's [high school] an interesting time in your life because you're trying to act older and mature but you really have no idea what you're doing. You're scared and it's okay to be scared. It's okay to not know completely what you want or what you should be doing and to stumble a little bit.
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How would you like to live with somebody who was everlastingly grieving your heart by his conduct?
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I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.
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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?
