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"Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without."
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"Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty."

"Some kids also think it makes them coolWhen they pick on other kids, being cruel."

"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt."

"So that the smile was not so much an attitude to be taken to life as the nature of the cruelty of life, a cruelty we cannot even choose to avoid, since it is human existence."

"In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other."

"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable."
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"The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to."


"They gave me four weeks, and I asked if the first week could be just music with the two main conductors. So, the conductors came over to my home, and we worked in the music room, and I learned my two little songs."


"I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance."


"The first clothing line I had was called Very Rue. Then we changed the name and moved to QVC, and the name became A Touch of Rue."


"Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant."


"I almost fainted. There was no family history. I had been eating a vegetarian diet and I exercised."
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