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?

Ruth Negga

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• Actors
• Jobs
• Pressure
• Careers
• Longevity
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• Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Time
  • Day
  • Challenge

• 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.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• 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.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Criticism
  • Sympathy
  • Universities

• I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Loved
  • Favourite
  • Fabulous

• I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Chance

• 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.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Way
  • Operation
  • Prevented

• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • World
  • Important
  • Love

• God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • King
  • Legal

• I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Want
  • Really
  • Mayor

• The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Economics
  • Bill Of Rights

• The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Whole
  • Rather
  • Ethical

• 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.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Pretty
  • You
  • See

• No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.

  

  Aphra Behn
  • Long
  • Friend
  • Sea

• If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.

  

  Jay Baruchel
  • Up
  • Job

• New is easy. Right is hard.

  

  Craig Federighi

• Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Work
  • Beginning

• 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.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Life
  • Good
  • Balance

• 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.

  

  Maria Sharapova

• Being an M.C. is all about just going for the throat.

  

  Big Boi

• A knowledge of craft is not the enemy of creativity. You sit down to write and realize, today's going to be a really unconscious day and I'm going to let it all out. Or, today's going to be analytical. And some days all mixed up.

  

  K. M. Soehnlein
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Today

• Ariel may look a lot like Barbie, and her adventure may be limited to romance and over with the wedding bells, but unlike, say, Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, she's active, brave and determined, the heroine of her own life. She even rescues the prince. And that makes her a rare fish, indeed, in the world of preschool culture.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• You don't have to be very brilliant. You don't have to have such a wonderful education. You can be an outstanding success if you will only take what little you have, whether it's little or much, and start using it, putting it into operation, doing something about it, and doing something with it. And, of course, that calls for initiative.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Success
  • Education
  • Brilliant

• 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?

  

  Ruth Negga
  • Worry
  • Actors
  • Jobs