I work best when there's a safety trampoline of kindness.


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RUTH RENDELL
Ford Maddox Ford's 'The Good Soldier' is my favourite novel. I first read it in the 1950...
RUTH RENDELL
Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.
RUTH ASAWA
He's a cat's cat, he climbs trees and sits on people's roofs but now he's forced to be in the house ...
RUTH CISERO
To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oce...
RUTH BERNHARD
We really lifted that ball and there was some great intercepts to see.
RUTH AITKEN
My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it...
RUTH REICHL
And I can promise you that we're not going to go to the Coastal Plain and come back with a three-buc...
CHARLES RUTH
The Stanford Mansion is certainly the jewel of Sacramento, ... and we're adding it to the crown jewe...
RUTH COLEMAN
I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
BABE RUTH
Even though this pegs to 150 percent of market, the premiums are still lower or benefits more expans...
RUTH CASE
Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
RUTH GORDON
I was like the queen of the South.
RUTH BROWN
The side of his face had gone numb so he went to a dentist, but was told he should see a doctor as w...
RUTH LIGGETT
I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly...
RUTH RENDELL
When I'm writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot o...
RUTH OZEKI
For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core...
RUTH GLICK
I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humili...
RUTH RENDELL
But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.
RUTH BROWN
My mother really would make these dreadful concoctions. She really prided herself on something calle...
RUTH REICHL
Anyone who has ever been an ugly adolescent - and we are legion - knows that the feeling of being un...
RUTH REICHL
We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
RUTH BROWN
There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.
RUTH BROWN
There were times that Harvey (Fuqua), myself, B.B King, we almost had to go to jail to sing this stu...
RUTH BROWN
All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as ...
RUTH BROWN
I traveled all through the deep South, but I was not getting on the big TV shows.
RUTH BROWN
We get more complaints now because of the cost. Insurance companies are looking at limiting benefits...
RUTH CASE
The American dream is to have your own home and to have some sort of security with health insurance....
RUTH CASE
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RUTH WARRICK
Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the intern...
RUTH ASAWA
Anthony is the anti-aesthete,
RUTH REICHL
We applaud the FDA for defining what whole grain is. Unfortunately, the FDA has not defined any clai...
RUTH LITCHFIELD
I'm a very rigorous person. I like to take exercise. People get mired in old age, they get bent ...
RUTH RENDELL
I have seen too many people in my career think that there is some natural progression to life, with ...
RUTH PORAT