Ruth Gordon Quotes

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• Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

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  Inspirational, Witty, Courage

  L'Officiel magazine, Summer 1980.

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• Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

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  Giving Up, Faces, Facts

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• Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

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  Meaningful, Forever, Trying

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• Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

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  Want, Sometimes, What You Want

  Ruth Gordon (1980). “Ruth Gordon, an open book”, Doubleday Books

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• Get up early in the morning before everybody has breathed up all the good air.

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  Morning, Air, Up Early

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• My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.

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  Dream, Stars, Vision

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• To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

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  Giving Up, Gambling, Luck

  Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”

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• Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

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  Meaningful, Vices, Meaning Of Life

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• When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.

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• I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

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  Grief, People, Suffering

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• Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did -- except me. I had more trouble in my life than anybody. But your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, you'll probably make it through the next one.

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  Attitude, Cheerful, Next

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• Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared.

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  Retirement, Long, People

  Ruth Gordon (1980). “Ruth Gordon, an open book”, Doubleday Books

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• At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.

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  Lying, Who Cares, Looks

  Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”

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• Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news.

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  News, Conversation, Know How

  Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”

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• Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

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  Birthday, Inspiration, Boredom

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• A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.

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  People, Aging, Enjoy

  "Fictional character: Maude". "Harold and Maude", www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• I never got a job I didn't create for myself.

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  Jobs, Creativity

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• Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.

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  Courage, Culture, Strain

  Ruth Gordon (1980). “Ruth Gordon, an open book”, Doubleday Books

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• Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

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  Acting, Use, Actors

  Ruth Gordon (1980). “Ruth Gordon, an open book”, Doubleday Books

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• In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, it meant you were having a face lift.

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  Abortion, Faces, Moral

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• In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

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  Divorce, Men, Our Family

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• Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.

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  Believe, Despair, Actors

  Ruth Gordon (1980). “Ruth Gordon, an open book”, Doubleday Books

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• To be somebody, you must last.

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  Advice, Lasts

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• I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.

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  Thinking, Faces, Facts

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