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• The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

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  Success, Memorable, Speech

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• The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?

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  Mean, Kissing, Actresses

  Ruth Gordon (1949). “The Leading Lady: Play in Three Acts”

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• I'm sure the way to be happy is to live well beyond your means!

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  Mean, Way, Live Well

  Ruth Gordon (1949). “The Leading Lady: Play in Three Acts”

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• If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts-what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.

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  Believe, Mean, Imagination

  Ruth Gordon (1986). “My Side: The Autobiography of Ruth Gordon”, Plume

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• Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully.

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  Live Life, Morality, Aim

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• Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one.

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  Adversity, Next, Firsts

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• You have to have a talent for having talent.

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  Talent

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• So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

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  Fall, Ruts, Easy

  Ruth Gordon (1949). “The Leading Lady: Play in Three Acts”

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• Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

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  Thinking, Hair, Talking

  Ruth Gordon (1949). “The Leading Lady: Play in Three Acts”

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• Don't face the facts.

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  Faces, Facts

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• Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.

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  People, Knack, Helping

  Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”

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• Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!

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  Book, Giving, Give Me

  Ruth Gordon (1986). “My Side: The Autobiography of Ruth Gordon”, Plume

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• Do people get moral when they don't get ahead?

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  People, Moral, Righteousness

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

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• The good that men do lives after them.

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  Men, Legacy

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• If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?

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  Thinking, Why Not, Becoming

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

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