Mercedes Ruehl Quotes

Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.

Mercedes Ruehl

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 28, 1948

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When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.

John Banville

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But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.

John McGahern

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For Ryan's Daughter I used a total of eight harps, something that was, at least, weird.

Maurice Jarre

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I was watching tennis on TV, and between games, they were showing a commercial for a tennis school. I wrote down the number, gave it to my mom, and said, 'This is what I want to do.' She thought it was a joke, but I was very stubborn, and I kept bringing it up.

Ana Ivanovic

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The United States attorney in South Carolina was a Barack Obama appointee. Politically, he is to the left of Mao Zedong.

Trey Gowdy

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I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

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Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

Lloyd Kaufman

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At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.

Joseph Kanon

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It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy.

Jordan Peterson

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Tween programming is so retro that the shows even have theme songs, something the quest for more commercial time drove out of prime-time television years ago.

Jonathan Dee

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I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.

Conrad Veidt

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Playing a final is great, but it's winning it that counts.

Antoine Griezmann

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