"You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name."

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Source : "Girl's Power Wows Mercedes Ruehl". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. June 19, 2006.

Mercedes Ruehl

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“i wanted to try things, everything, especially things that are illegal and have a faint whiff of glamour.”
“The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you.”
“Oh! weep not that our beauty wears Beneath the wings of Time; That age o'erclouds the brow with cares That once was raised sublime... But mourn the inward wreck we feel As hoary years depart, And Time's effacing fingers steal Young feelings from the heart!”
“I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.”
“I also liked Daniel Craig. He's not like any other Bond. So we'll see. In 10 years I might be cursed for doing it, but I'm very grateful for what it has done for me.”
“Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.”
“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”

Source : Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.336, Simon and Schuster
“The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.”

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