Brenda Ueland Quotes
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
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And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?
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When I was 5 years old, I was coming up the stairs, and I saw my mom standing there, singing 'A Quiet Thing' a cappella, and it was such a differentiating moment for me. I realized that we are separate from each other - she has dreams and goals.
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People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.
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Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
