Ruby Wax Quotes

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

Ruby Wax

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LifeLoveFreedomMeJealousHide

I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say, in an office full of elderly people who looked after blind ex-servicemen.

Andrew O'Hagan

PoetryPeopleVoiceBlindLoving

I'd like to be in a Western.

John Cho

LikeWestern

I think people throw the term 'sociopath' around a lot without knowing what it means - but people who don't understand that what they're doing is mean and wrong and cruel, they need to be made to understand that.

Max Joseph

PeopleThinkDoingWrongUnderstand

My father was in the coal and heating business, and he wanted me to take over his business, and I resented every moment of it. So I would never force my kids to do what I do.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

FatherBusinessMomentMeNever

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

Jean Giraudoux

LoveMenDeceiveDeceitFidelity

I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

John Thune

FaithPeopleThinkViewChristian

I like being the odd one out in L.A. Because if you conform, you become something you hate. I love being the odd one out. It's not about 'Look at me! Look at me!' It's about really becoming someone else.

Tracey Ullman

LoveHateMeSomeoneYouLook

Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.

Roberto Cavalli

LifeArtMyselfMy LifeSomething

I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.

Ron Rash

TimeStoryDecisionsAlwaysDialogue

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

LifeSpeedsWhile

Ultimately, in regular television, you've got seven or eight executives and maybe 50 people in the room with dials who are deciding whether a show goes - and it's not a great way, because we're making mass entertainment.

Jay Chandrasekhar

GreatPeopleYouTelevisionWayGot

Ummm... well, the only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing, which sounds obvious, but it's really not.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

PeopleCareDoingWantObviousWell

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