"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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Source : Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”

Ruth Gordon

#Lying Quotes #Looks Quotes #Care Quotes

“I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller.”
“It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.”
“To change an opinion without a mental process is the mark of the uneducated.”
“I don't know why you'd spend any of your time trying to remake something that you don't actually like.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.”
“And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.”

Source : "Op-Ed: Cut Health Care Spending On The Elderly". "Talk of the Nation" with Rebecca Roberts, www.npr.org. August 17, 2009.
“Never forget that the end of a sermon is the salvation of the people.”

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