Nancy Ruth Quotes
One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.
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Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.
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In Mumbai, you have to act in real life, too.
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I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.
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Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
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I was in college when tens of thousands of people marched on Washington for the first Earth Day. Raw sewage floated in rivers and clouds of smog hung over cities. But then something amazing happened. People spoke out. Thousands of students, workers, and ordinary citizens used their voices to say, 'This has to change.'
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Risk is what you make of it.
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When you Google someone's name, it matters to me what shows up. Not the lies, but like, did you change lives? Did you do something while you were here?
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One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.
