"Nobody really lives in the present."

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Source : Ruth Rendell (2010). “A Judgement In Stone”, p.65, Random House

Ruth Rendell

#Live In The Present Quotes

“Paper money is made of cotton, and I'm long cotton, by the way. One reason I'm long cotton is because Dr. Bernanke is out there running the printing presses as fast as he can.”
“The whole thing is this: If you don't use just basic grammar, if you don't get the language down, you're not going to have access to a tool that people use as a weapon against you. The only reason I was never taught to read and write was because it was easier for them to lead me. But the second I learned to read and write, I began to lead myself.”

Source : Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.
“There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92)”
“I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I am further back, surrounded on all sides by wailing men, their faces shiny with tears. Uncle Al promised three dollars and a bottle of Canadian whiskey to the man who puts on the best show. You've never seen such grief-- even the dogs were howling.”
“You won't talk to anybody who breaks lyrics down more thoroughly. It's just a complete deconstruction, and when you start to rebuild, nobody has the capacity to do it like me. Which is not to say I'm better, it's just that there's a unique quality to everyone.”
“It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.”
“I used to beat up kids and bite kids and do stuff all the time.”

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