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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 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 If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I f...
RUTH NEGGA 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