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Ruth Rendell Quotes

I don't like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Myself Writing Doing Up Careless

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Opportunity Yourself Free Feel You

Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.

Me Duty Fiction Sense Burdened

I knew Sinatra for 38 years. He was like my father. Frank Sinatra was my 'dad.' He treated me like his son. He gave me the best advice about singing, about this and that... He was a very sensitive man, very astute, one of the sharpest men that I ever met in my life.

Life Father Son Best Men Man

I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.

Stand Like Obnoxious Whom He Really

I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture.

Picture Wedding

There are occasions when I've pretended to be in a firefight, and then there are people who have really been in a firefight. Clearly it's absolutely ridiculous, and even disrespectful, to suggest that I understand what that is.

People Ridiculous Understand Clearly

The older I get, the more I think birds are the best musicians on the planet.

Best Birds Think Musicians More Get

Since 'Heroes' started, I've probably had about 15 or 16 film scripts sent to me with Indian characters, and out of those, maybe one was good.

Sendhil Ramamurthy

Good Me Heroes Out Started Film

I think people see me as someone very much associated with political agreement and, probably more than anything else, being able to build a relationship with loyalist leaders Ian Paisley and Peter Robinson.

Martin McGuinness

Relationship People Me Think Someone

Never waste a crisis.

Crisis Never Waste

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Today Sad Joy Tomorrow Worry Never

I like sundresses with cowboy boots, little shorts with big wedge heels and a big piece of turquoise. I also love classic, Old Hollywood romantic styles. I'm 'country girl meets city girl' circa 1930.

Love Girl Romantic City Boots Old

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