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Ruth Rendell Quotes

Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: british
Birth: February 17, 1930 - May 2, 2015

Topics

Hope Time Long You Nobody Long Time

I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did.

Work Opportunity Time Me Comedy Go

That Oscar can be a jinx... It can... damage irreparably one's relations with family, friends. It's an uneasy head that wears the crown.

Family Friends Crown Head Damage

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

Good Writing Promises Ego Things

Everything that comes out of Canada musically, I support. I support Toronto 100% because I'm on the side of the music.

Music Support Canada Musically Out

I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as well.

Kid Boundaries Everything Out Pretty

My mother is a tall woman - as is everyone in my family. At her prime, she stood 5 feet 9 inches, which is quite unusual for a woman born in 1922.

Family Mother Woman Feet Born She

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

Jean de la Bruyere

Great Small Person Position Greater

I think I can be a guy who can make an impact right away.

Think Impact I Can Right Guy Away

There were two things I wanted to be: an actor and a hippie.

Dennis Christopher

Actor Two Hippie Things Wanted Were

When I am brushing my teeth, I'm bending my leg behind me, or I'm lifting my leg up and holding it in that position so I'm squeezing my butt in. I can do that while I'm washing or slicing vegetables, too. Or I go up and down on my toes, working my calves a little bit.

Christie Brinkley

I Am Me Down I Can Vegetables Go

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

Constantin Brancusi

Work God Joy Mystery You Look

I spend about a year between novels.

Year Between About Novels Spend

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