Ruth Negga
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KATE MICUCCI DANA CARVEY WALTER DEAN MYERS ELODIE YUNG I don't want to own something that you can't take into your apartment at night. EDWARD P. JONES LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN ANN LANDERS Honestly, I don't buy papers or the weeklies. I think when something messy does happen, you just... ABBEY CLANCY GORDON BETHUNE It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you... KEN ADAM IGGY AZALEA When you're doing a job, you go out there and do it to the best of your ability and you don'... MICHELLE FAIRLEY A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and ... ZACHARY LEVI I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don... JOYCE DIDONATO I work best when there's a safety trampoline of kindness. RUTH NEGGA KELLY ROWLAND PRINCE WILLIAM CLIFF RICHARD Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure t... SARA BLAKELY There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don'... DANNY HUSTON If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave t... JOSE MUJICA HEIDI KLUM You can't let someone else lower your self-esteem, because that's what it is - self-esteem. ... WINNIE HARLOW IAN MCKELLEN I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curati... NATE LOWMAN LEWIS THOMAS You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for ... ANN POWERS It's hard because people always say, 'Follow your dreams,' but it's not a perfect wo... STEPHEN COLLETTI You can have your own language. You can have your own dialect; you can have your own way of saying t... NICK EARLS JOHN CIARDI I think, whenever you're doing anything, you don't want anyone anywhere to watch it and thin... CLAIRE FOY BRIAN ENO EMRAAN HASHMI You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play. FREDDY ADU LETITIA BALDRIGE CHRISTOPHER MELONI LARRY THE CABLE GUY GIGI HADID ROBERT STACK You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best yea... DAVID ORTIZ NEIL PEART MARINA ABRAMOVIC Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when ... CECILIA BARTOLI BARRY GOLDWATER DAVE RAMSEY There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you... IRVING STONE CATHY RIGBY JOE NAMATH ADAM ANT We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American t... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE When you have a lot of money, there's so many places you can go to manage your money. But when y... ALEXA VON TOBEL To have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you ... TOM LEHMAN SOPHIA AMORUSO You are only an actor if you absolutely love it and can not do anything else. Starving for your art ... JAMES AVERY GARY JOHNSON KATEE SACKHOFF JACK KEVORKIAN CINDY CRAWFORD You don't need to like your protagonists. ANSON MOUNT JOYCE MEYER NICK VUJICIC I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child. DIANE ABBOTT DORIS LESSING JIM ROHN I don't know how many times I can sit there and talk about my character or my life. It's int... WENDIE MALICK I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and th... MAIARA WALSH When you do voiceover it's such a fun job to be able to do. First of all, you can do it in your ... KELLY HU WHITFIELD DIFFIE You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if ... HANIF KUREISHI CHRIS MILK JENNIE FINCH You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it&#... 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When you label someone 'up and coming' or 'the new breakout,' there's this kind ... RUTH NEGGA Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her. RUTH NEGGA Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I... RUTH NEGGA In many ways, playing a real person is slightly easier because you have a road map. When you're ... RUTH NEGGA I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's n... RUTH NEGGA If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I f... RUTH NEGGA People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it... RUTH NEGGA I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with th... RUTH NEGGA I've always been very talkative, very chatty, quite hyperactive. I grew up with a lot of cousins... RUTH NEGGA I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I nev... RUTH NEGGA I love the Greeks. There's no messing around - it's all do or die with them. RUTH NEGGA I'm shy at public speaking, which is tough. RUTH NEGGA I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become com... RUTH NEGGA I don't think I have ever thought of myself as a movie star. I think when I was about seven, I t... RUTH NEGGA I work best when there's a safety trampoline of kindness. RUTH NEGGA RUTH REICHL The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new for... RUTH BERNHARD RUTH REICHL Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television... RUTH RENDELL Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly ... RUTH RENDELL RUTH PORAT I live in a beautiful part of British Columbia, and I run through the rainforest. I do have to look ... RUTH OZEKI BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading. RUTH OZEKI RUTH REICHL You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be abl... RUTH SMELTZER RUTH ROSS I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thi... RUTH WILSON RUTH REICHL We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we fe... RUTH RENDELL BABE RUTH RUTH ROSS RUTH GRAHAM RUTH BEECHICK BABE RUTH BABE RUTH RUTH GORDON BABE RUTH RUTH ROSS RUTH HUBBARD RUTH MORGAN BABE RUTH RUTH ROSS RUTH BENEDICT RUTH GORDON RUTH STOUT ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must tak... RUTH BENEDICT RUTH BENEDICT RUTH BENEDICT RUTH BENEDICT RUTH BENEDICT RUTH BENEDICT RUTH GORDON RUTH HUBBARD RUTH HUBBARD RUTH BENEDICT When people lose their ties to the land they grow corrupt. Inevitably, they grow corrupt. RUTH ALMOG BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH RUTH STOUT RUTH BENEDICT BABE RUTH RUTH REICHL RUTH BENEDICT BABE RUTH RUTH GORDON RUTH PORAT A fox is a wolf who sends flowers. RUTH BROWN RUTH REICHL RUTH REICHL 'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It... RUTH RENDELL RUTH REICHL The knives of jealousy are honed on details. RUTH RENDELL I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural tr... RUTH OZEKI He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one... RUTH PARK RUTH REICHL If you're chained to a computer all day, you're not using up much energy, even if you drag y... RUTH GLICK I came up with, 'I am a lost boy from Neverland, usually hanging out with Peter Pan' and rec... RUTH B I went down to my keyboard and was playing random chords, and the one line I kept repeating was, ... RUTH B RUTH REICHL To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiou... RUTH HARRIS RUTH STOUT RUTH REICHL Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I ... RUTH OZEKI RUTH REICHL BABE RUTH BABE RUTH I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful. RUTH HANDLER Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult ... RUTH HANDLER BABE RUTH RUTH PORAT The difficult thing for me is going to a event and having to be dressed up and being judged for what... RUTH WILSON RUTH REICHL RUTH BENEDICT RUTH REICHL The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make... RUTH OZEKI The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on ... RUTH BUZZI In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of peo... RUTH HARRISON RUTH GORDON Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized. RUTH WILSON I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishi... RUTH OZEKI RUTH REICHL I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford... RUTH RENDELL They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women. RUTH HANDLER RUTH REICHL Of course, to publish something, you have to write it, polish it, then hire out the line editing, co... RUTH GLICK My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm l... RUTH BUZZI In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers te... RUTH RENDELL The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine. RUTH RENDELL I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective... RUTH RENDELL One of my desert island books, 'The Leopard' is not so much a novel as a eulogy for a way of... RUTH WARE I believe that for all of us, there was this one moment in our early life when we started being obse... RUTH REINHARDT I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon... RUTH B RUTH BENEDICT RUTH GORDON BABE RUTH BABE RUTH RUTH GORDON RUTH GORDON RUTH HUBBARD BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH BABE RUTH You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him. RUTH ELLIS People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won... RUTH RENDELL Walden Pond? You mean like Thoreau? RUTH SAUNDERS RUTH REICHL Firstly, I think that now there are many young female conductors, but as it takes at least thirty ye... RUTH REINHARDT I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How ... RUTH RENDELL RUTH REICHL RUTH PORAT I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then... RUTH RENDELL Beth Garber did very well in the No. 2 spot. Jenny Christen, in the No. 6 spot and her first time on... RUTH PINKERTON RUTH REICHL She's another Tina Turner is what I see, RUTH BROWN Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; ... RUTH BROWN Unfortunately, I'm a little concerned where the legends are coming from nowadays. RUTH BROWN And, of course, I was singing cheap. RUTH BROWN There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because o... RUTH BROWN RUTH HUBBARD We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, th... RUTH RENDELL People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called ... RUTH OZEKI People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, no... RUTH RENDELL RUTH REICHL I don't know that we'll be able to sell, statewide, anything less than a five-buck limit. CHARLES RUTH My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times ... RUTH RENDELL Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950... RUTH RENDELL Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done. RUTH ASAWA He's a cat's cat, he climbs trees and sits on people's roofs but now he's forced to be in the house ... RUTH CISERO To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oce... RUTH BERNHARD We really lifted that ball and there was some great intercepts to see. RUTH AITKEN RUTH REICHL And I can promise you that we're not going to go to the Coastal Plain and come back with a three-buc... CHARLES RUTH The Stanford Mansion is certainly the jewel of Sacramento, ... and we're adding it to the crown jewe... RUTH COLEMAN BABE RUTH Even though this pegs to 150 percent of market, the premiums are still lower or benefits more expans... RUTH CASE RUTH GORDON I was like the queen of the South. RUTH BROWN The side of his face had gone numb so he went to a dentist, but was told he should see a doctor as w... RUTH LIGGETT I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly... RUTH RENDELL When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot o... RUTH OZEKI For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core... RUTH GLICK I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humili... RUTH RENDELL But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now. RUTH BROWN RUTH REICHL RUTH REICHL We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues. RUTH BROWN There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through. RUTH BROWN There were times that Harvey (Fuqua), myself, B.B King, we almost had to go to jail to sing this stu... RUTH BROWN All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as ... RUTH BROWN I traveled all through the deep South, but I was not getting on the big TV shows. RUTH BROWN We get more complaints now because of the cost. Insurance companies are looking at limiting benefits... RUTH CASE The American dream is to have your own home and to have some sort of security with health insurance.... RUTH CASE Phoebe English Tyler Wallingford Matthews Wallingford RUTH WARRICK Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the intern... RUTH ASAWA RUTH REICHL We applaud the FDA for defining what whole grain is. Unfortunately, the FDA has not defined any clai... RUTH LITCHFIELD I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent ... RUTH RENDELL RUTH PORAT
I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don'... 
It is said that anyone who does commercial cinema is not acting, and anyone who does an art film is ... 
Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't wo... 
For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don'... 
I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and ... 
The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things tha... 
I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your ... 
You want to enjoy your night, and you don't want to suffer in your heels too long. Lipstick comp... 
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and... 
If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don&#... 
You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie ... 
Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things. 
If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantab... 
I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you... 
There's loads of things you can do to make things easy for your throat, you can drink a bit of l... 
Keeping it all together as a modern woman means multitasking, especially when you work. I think you ... 
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. 
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When a film is successful, you don't need to shout about it from the rooftops. I don't belie... 
You don't want to work so hard that you can't enjoy your guests. 
I take this art very seriously and passionately. I love what I do. You can't help but grow. That... 
Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you ... 
I eat healthy when I can; I eat a burger when I want, and I work out. You have to live with the rout... 
If you don't love it, you can't suffer thru all the despair that comes with it. Keep doing i... 
I want to be an improviser, and I've worked very hard at that. It's an art. You don't ju... 
I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is re... 
You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight... 
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When you're on the Olympic team at 15, you don't do anything else. There's no normal soc... 
I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything... 
When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't ... 
A lot of people in my generation don't seem to get that you have to work your way up. I don'... 
I would say that a wasted vote is voting for anybody you don't believe in. If you believe in the... 
I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated. 
You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care. 
Life is where you're at. Whatever you're doing is enough. You don't need to do everythin... 
As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don'... 
Money can't heal your heart. Money can't give you purpose. I don't want arms and legs, I... 
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need... 
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan... 
Cloud computing means you are doing your computing on somebody else's computer. Looking ahead a ... 
There's three things that you need for virtual reality to work. You need the hardware that's... 
When you train six to seven hours a day to be the best in your sport, you don't want that to be ... 
Don't let anyone make you believe the length of your skirt is a measure of your character. 
You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. Yo... 
One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it a... 
I don't want to get married - I've been there and done that. So I know what I'm talking ... 
I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, y... 
I don't think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank G... 
You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or... 
There is a moment when you get older when your metabolism slows down and you don't feel like wor... 
Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don'... 
You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you... 
It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don'... 
You need to cultivate your passion and crystallize your vision. If you don't know where you'... 
I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal. 
My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower... 
If the door is nailed shut, and you're 'Leaning In,' you're just going to get bruise... 
How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt? 
Paris ain't much of a town. 
Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder. 
There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can b... 
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imaginatio... 
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. 
A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn. 
To be somebody you must last. 
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides. 
Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy... 
In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day... 
Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their bre... 
Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must tak... 
The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of th... 
To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the... 
It's been invigorating being back on the West Coast, being at Alphabet, because there is so much... 
You have to have a talent for having talent. 
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, ... 
Liquidity is oxygen for a financial system. 