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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.

Ruth Gordon

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Ruth Gordon
Age: 88 †
Born: 1896
Born: October 30
Died: 1985
Died: August 28
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Playwright
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Writer
Quincy
Massachusetts
Ruth Gordon Jones
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Despair
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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.
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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.
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Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did -- except me. I had more trouble in my life than anybody. But your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, you'll probably make it through the next one.
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At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.
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You have to have a talent for having talent.
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Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then youre bound to live life fully.
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Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.
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Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.
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Get up early in the morning before everybody has breathed up all the good air.
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Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.
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Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.
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Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!
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Live long enough and you'll come into pensions, a lovely thing. Presents every month from people you didn't know cared.
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If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?
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Do people get moral when they don't get ahead?
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When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.
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Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.
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