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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I don't understand why young entrepreneurs feel this pressure to take venture capital or go public. Don't get me wrong: Public companies are A-OK with me. I just think there is another way. Staying private is a lot more sane.
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When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film in which the characters were like real people instead of being like actors.
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Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams. Govern your life by priorities not your pressures.
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'The Bottoms' or 'A Fine Dark Line' are two of my favorites.
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We are going tomorrow to get very serious on Sudan.
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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?
