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Ruth Gordon Quotes: Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.
         

Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.


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Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.



Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.



My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.

My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.



To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.



Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.



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I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.



Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.



When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.

When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.



Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.





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God's gift of life is all that every winner at heart needs to be victorious.



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I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy, pleasure filled life. So can I; so can you.

I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy, pleasure filled life. So can I; so can you.



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When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.



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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.




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This page presents the quote "Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.". Author of this quote is Ruth Gordon. This quote is about show business, despair, talent, believe, actors, don't believe, happiness,.