I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.


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I believe that for all of us, there was this one moment in our early life when we started being obse...
RUTH REINHARDT
Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I...
RUTH NEGGA
I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon...
RUTH B
The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on beha...
RUTH BENEDICT
Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
RUTH GORDON
You have to have a talent for having talent.
RUTH GORDON
In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.
RUTH GORDON
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, ...
RUTH HUBBARD
You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.
RUTH ELLIS
People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won...
RUTH RENDELL
Walden Pond? You mean like Thoreau?
RUTH SAUNDERS
M. F. K. Fisher was a wonder and a huge influence, and someone I got to know pretty well at the end ...
RUTH REICHL
Firstly, I think that now there are many young female conductors, but as it takes at least thirty ye...
RUTH REINHARDT
I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How ...
RUTH RENDELL
I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you hal...
RUTH REICHL
Liquidity is oxygen for a financial system.
RUTH PORAT
I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then...
RUTH RENDELL
Beth Garber did very well in the No. 2 spot. Jenny Christen, in the No. 6 spot and her first time on...
RUTH PINKERTON
What does happen in 'Gourmet,' we had eight test kitchens, and at any given time, there were...
RUTH REICHL
She's another Tina Turner is what I see,
RUTH BROWN
Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; ...
RUTH BROWN
Unfortunately, I'm a little concerned where the legends are coming from nowadays.
RUTH BROWN
And, of course, I was singing cheap.
RUTH BROWN
There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because o...
RUTH BROWN
We're at the cutting edge. The purely oral approach is newer and experimental in that it's not happe...
RUTH HUBBARD
In many ways, playing a real person is slightly easier because you have a road map. When you're ...
RUTH NEGGA
We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, th...
RUTH RENDELL
People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called ...
RUTH OZEKI
People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, no...
RUTH RENDELL
My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means underst...
RUTH REICHL
I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's n...
RUTH NEGGA
I don't know that we'll be able to sell, statewide, anything less than a five-buck limit.
CHARLES RUTH
My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times ...
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