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

Ruth Gordon

#Believe Quotes #Despair Quotes #Actors Quotes

“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”
“I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter.”

Source : "The Life Of Girolamo Savonarola". Book by Roberto Ridolfi, 1952.
“Thereâ€™s a very comfortable techno-libertarian culture where you think youâ€™re doing the right thing,”
“There's nothing a man can't do if the spirit's there.”
“Whether we're on the path toward victory or defeat is determined by the very next choice we make. Not the choices from yesterday. Not the choices five minutes ago.”
“Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person whoâ€™s bound to have some characteristic of quality.”
“The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.”

Source : Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights: An Intensely Human and Brilliant Account of the World War; why American Entered the Conflict; what the Allies Fought For; and a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”
“The human interest, and the natural interest, and the spiritual interest of this planet need to begin to take a priority over the corporate interest, the military interest, and the materialistic interests.”

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